Practice Test No. 2, answers

THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE                                               Back to Practice Test No. 2

True or False Questions:

1.      True

2.      True

3.      False, it was vocal

4.      False it is monophonic

5.      False, Gregorian chant has a narrow range and is in conjunct motion.

6.      True

7.      True

8.      False, texture in Renaissance music was primarily polyphonic (i.e. Mass and Madrigal).

9.      False, instrumental music was performed outside the church or after a religious service.

10.   True

11.   False, the 1400’s was the beginning of the Renaissance and there was an increase in secular music

12.   True

13.   False, the text of a madrigal is non-religious and the texture is polyphonic.

14.   True

15.   False, the Renaissance mass is a five movement work, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnes Dei.

16.   True

17.   False, Organum was built around Gregorian chant but also had an added embellished part.

18.   Organum

19.   Estampies

20.   c

21.   Pope Gregory

22.   Gregorian chant

23.   b

24.   a

25.   troubadours

26.   the High Middle Ages or the Ars Nova

27.   lute

28.   imitative polyphony

29.   a cappella

30.   word painting

31.   Martin Luther

32.   the madrigal

33.   b

34.   isorhythm

35.   b

36.   d

37.   d

38.   a

39.   c

40.   b

41.   a

42.   b                                                                          

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