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CUI Music History 11
Renaissance Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Renaissance period is marked by an interest in ________ | ancient Greek culture |
| The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries? | 15th and 16th |
| The chief sixteenth-century keyboard genre in improvisatory style was ________ | toccata |
| For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in _______ | France, the Netherlands, or Flanders |
| Temperament is _________ | tuning all pitches of a keyboard instrument to make thirds and sixths sound good |
| Ottavio Petrucci is known for _________ | publishing music using a three-impression method |
| The main textures for the Renaissance were ________ | homophony and imitative counterpoint |
| The contenance angloise refers to _______ | the English style of polyphony |
| In what way did the Hundred Year's war influence music? | English composers spent time in France |
| The form which contains a burden is the _________ | carol |
| By the first half of the fifteenth century, the word motet was applied to ______ | and polyphonic composition on a sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the Mass |
| Which of these statements is true of the duchy of Burgundy? | It occupied cast tracts of land and rivaled the kingdom of France in influence |
| Fauxbourdon is best defined as ______ | two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords |
| A mass in which all movements begin with the same motive is called a(n) _________ | motto mass |
| Ockeghem spent most of his career in the service of __________ | the kings of France |
| Pckeghem's Missa prolationem employs which compositional technique? | canon |
| Which of the following statements describes the way(s) in which the bassus voice of the late fifteenth century differs from that of the masses of Du Fay? | The range is a fourth lower |
| Point of imitation is defined as ________ | a succession of imitate entrances |
| Imitation in paired voices is a characteristic of _________ | Josquin |
| Who was Luther's principal musical collaborator? | Johann Walter |
| What is a contrafactum? | A piece in which a new text, usually sacred, is added to preexisting music |
| Which of the following statements characterizes Jean Calvin's attitude toward music? | He allowed only unaccompanied singing of psalms at church services |
| What is/are the principal form(s) of Lutheran church music? | chorale |
| What is/are the principal form(s) of Calvinist church music? | metrical psalm |
| What is/are the principal form(s) of Anglican church music? | madrigal and motet |
| Palestrina spent most of his career at institutions in _________ | Rome |
| The main secular vernacular genre of sixteenth-century Spain was __________ | villancico |
| By the middle of the sixteenth century, the typical Italian madrigal was written for ________ | five or more voices |
| Madrigalism can be defined as _______ | the literal depiction of an individual word or phrase |
| Musica Transalpina was a collection of ______ | Italian madrigal that had been translated into English |
| The Triumphs of Oriana was _________ | a collection of madrigals in honor of Queen Elizabeth |
| One composer known for his lute songs is _________ | John Dowland |
| A consort is _________ | and combination of instruments in a small group |
| The Renaissance instrument that is related to the modern trombone is the _________ | Sackbut |
| The polychoral motet was culticated on a regular basis in __________ | Venice |
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