Practice Test No. 2

THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE (476-1400)     Answers

True or False Questions:

1.        Nearly a  thousand years of European history are spanned by the phrase Middle Ages.

2.        Monks in monasteries held a virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages.

3.        Music manuscripts  during the Middle Ages indicate that most  medieval music was instrumental.

4.        Gregorian chant is homophonic in texture.

5.        Gregorian chant melodies tend to move by leaps over a wide range of  pitches.

6.        Organum is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and an additional melodic line

7.        During the Renaissance, educated people were often trained in music, literature, theatre, and art.

8.        Texture of Renaissance music is primarily homophonic.

9.        Much of the instrumental dance music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.

10.      Troubadours were Medieval poets and musicians.

11.      The 1400’s witnessed a decreased focus on secular music.

12.      The Renaissance saw the growth of solo instrumental music, especially for lute.

13.      The text of a madrigal is religious and the texture is homophonic.

14.      The Renaissance madrigal was highly expressive through such devices as word painting.

15.      The Renaissance Mass was a one movement work for voices and instruments.

16.      The invention of the printing press in Western Europe was a Renaissance development.

17.      Organum was freely composed and had no pre-conceived or pre-determined basis.

 

Part Two: Fill in

18.      The earliest type of polyphonic compositions, dating from around 900 A.D., are called_____________.

19.      The few surviving medieval dances and the music that accompanied them are called_______________.

20.      Hildegard of Bingen is known as:

a.        a legendary woman minnesinger

b.        a patroness of the troubadours

c.        a nun, church composer, natural historian and poet

d.        the mother of Richard the Lion-Hearted

21.      Who is traditionally associated with collecting and codifying the chants of the Church?

22.      Single line melodies sung in unison from the early Christian Church are known as_______________.

23.    Which is not true of Gregorian chant?

a.      It is monophonic in texture

b.     It is accompanied with harmony

c.     It is generally non-metric

d.     It is generally in conjunct motion

 

24.     Medieval entertainers who played instruments, danced and performed tricks were most likely to perform and play which genre of the following?

a.      an estampie

b.     a Mass      

c.      a madrigal

d.     Gregorian chant

25.      Wandering poets, singers and songwriters from southern France were known as__________.

 

26.      Music during the Medieval period music underwent a change; developments in rhythm, meter, counterpoint and harmony took place.  This became known as_____________.

27.     The fretted string instrument similar to the guitar but with a pear-shape and extremely popular during the Renaissance was the______________.

28.     In the Renaissance mass, melodies move from voice to voice imitating each other, this texture is known as____________.

29.     A vocal work without instrumental accompaniment is said to be performed_____________.

30.     The expressive device used by Renaissance composers to musically pictorialize words from a sung text is called_______________.

31.     Which of the following was a leader in the Protestant Reformation?

32.     What was the primary vocal genre of secular music in the Renaissance?

33.     Which work best illustrates the technique of word painting?

a.      Pope Marcellus Mass

b.     Thomas Weelkes Madrigal:  "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending Descending"

c.      Leonin: Organum on "Benedicamus Domino"

d.     William Byrd:  Monsiers Almain

34.     The polyphonic technique found in Medieval Motets, in which the melodies change while the rhythms are repeated is called______________.

35.         What was the most widespread of the Renaissance instrumental genres?

a.      the madrigal

b.     dance music

c.      organ music

d.     instrumental music to accompany voices in church

36.         The pavane and galliard were:

a.      different types of Renaissance chansons.

b.     forms used in Renaissance masses.

c.      a pair of Raissance dances in the same meter.

d.     a pair of Renaissance dances in the contrasting duple and triple meter.

37.         Which work was written by Bernard de Ventadorn?

a.      Plainchant “Columba aspexit”

b.     Organum “Alleluia”

c.      Motet “Quant en moy”

d.     Troubadour song “La dousa votz”

38.         Which work was written by Hildegard of Bingen?

a.      Plainchant “Columba aspexit

b.     Organum “Alleluia”

c.      Motet “Quant en moy”

d.     Troubadour song “La dousa votz”

39.         Which work was written by Guillaume de Machaut?

a.      Plainchant “Columba aspexit

b.     Organum “Alleluia”

c.      Motet “Quant en moy”

d.     Troubadour song “La dousa votz”

40.         Which work was written by Leonin or Perotin?

a.      Plainchant “Columba aspexit

b.     Organum “Alleluia”

c.      Motet “Quant en moy”

d.     Troubadour song “La dousa votz”

41.         Which work was written by Josquin Desprez or Giovanni Palestrina?

a.      Mass “Pange lingua”

b.     Lute solo “Fantasia No. 7”

c.      Madrigal “As Vesta was”

d.     Pavane “Celeste giglio”

42.         Which work was written by John Dowland?

a.      Mass “Pange lingua”

b.     Lute solo “Fantasia No. 7”

c.      Madrigal “As Vesta was”

d.     Pavane “Celeste giglio”

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