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Q: How does Josquin highlight different emotional aspects of the text in Ave Maria . . . virgo serena?
Q: Describe the impact of humanism on Renaissance painting and sacred music.
Q: The motet is a secular work with a Latin text.
Q: Renaissance painting is considered more realistic than medieval art because Renaissance painters used more vivid colors.
Q: Josquin does not incorporate a cantus firmus in Ave Maria . . . virgo serena.
Q: Josquins career centered exclusively in his native France.
Q: One of the reasons for the success of the Renaissance motet was its free use of vernacular languages.
Q: An a cappella choir is accompanied by the organ.
Q: Music for the Christian church was sung primarily by professional male singers trained from childhood.
Q: Renaissance painters preferred symbolism to realism.
Q: Religious belief became more personal during the Renaissance.
Q: A musical setting in which all voices move together rhythmically is called: a. polyphonic. c. homorhythmic. b. monophonic. d. polyrhythmic.
Q: A sacred work with a Latin text for use in the Mass and other religious services is called a: a. madrigal. c. motet. b. cantus firmus. d. chanson.
Q: During the Renaissance there was a growing reliance on: a. unquestioning faith and mysticism. c. the church. b. reason and scientific inquiry. d. ancient Asian cultures.
Q: What is the musical basis of Josquins Ave Maria . . . virgo serena? a. a popular cantus firmus heard throughout the entire work b. a preexisting Gregorian chant for the Virgin in the top voice and then a freely composed melody c. an isorhythm in the two bottom voices d. a five-note ostinato figure
Q: The text of Ave Maria . . . virgo serena concerns: a. praise of the Virgin Mary. b. praise of the English victory at Agincourt. c. praise of chivalric love. d. praise of the Archangel Michael.
Q: Josquins Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is an example of the: a. Mass. c. chanson. b. motet. d. madrigal.
Q: The dominant composers of the early Renaissance came from: a. Italy. c. England. b. northern Europe. d. Spain.
Q: Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed? a. Machaut c. Farmer b. Josquin d. Hildegard
Q: A fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing during the Renaissance is called: a. word-painting. c. a cantus firmus. b. a cappella. d. a saltarello.
Q: Which of the following best describes the texture of ideal Renaissance sacred music? a. imitative c. monophonic b. homorhythmic d. heterophonic
Q: The Renaissance is regarded as the golden age of singing for voices alone without instrumental accompaniment, which is called: a. imitation. c. cantus firmus. b. a cappella style. d. polyphony.
Q: Which genre of vocal music was included in Renaissance church services? a. Gregorian chant c. hymn b. motet d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Which of the following best characterizes humanism? a. thinking centered on human issues and individuality b. inspiration from the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome c. independence from tradition and religion d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Why is Renaissance painting considered more realistic than medieval painting? a. Renaissance painters used more vivid colors. b. The subjects of Renaissance paintings were often ordinary people doing ordinary tasks. c. Renaissance painters discovered a perspective that made it possible to see the whole simultaneously. d. Renaissance subjects were more consistently religious.
Q: Describe how the madrigal links music and poetry.
Q: Describe how so-called madrigalisms enhance the emotional content of Fair Phyllis.
Q: Claudio Monteverdi was one of the most artful and influential composers of the Italian madrigal tradition.
Q: Madrigal texts often included emotional words for weeping, sighing, trembling, and dying.
Q: Word-painting is an expressive device in which the music directly reflects the meaning of the words.
Q: Women began to play prominent roles in the performance of music both in the home and at court during the Renaissance.
Q: Madrigals such as Farmers Fair Phyllis were designed for professionals to perform to an audience.
Q: John Farmer was born in Italy and then moved to London.
Q: Unlike Italian madrigals, Fair Phyllis has no word-painting.
Q: The English madrigal flourished during the reign of Henry VIII.
Q: English composers adopted the Italian madrigal and developed it into a native form.
Q: Italian madrigalists set words such as death, heaven, and stars with great expression.
Q: In many world cultures, secular songs tend to be polyphonic.
Q: Phyllis is a _______ in Farmers setting of Fair Phyllis. a. shepherdess c. courtesan b. milk maid d. seamstress
Q: Where did Farmer work as an organist and choir master? a. Christ Church in Dublin c. St. Marks in Venice b. Notre Dame in Paris d. St. Peters in Rome
Q: John Farmer primarily worked in _______. a. Dublin c. Venice b. Rome d. Paris
Q: The Renaissance French chanson is an outgrowth of music developed by ______. a. Hildegard c. Farmer b. Machaut d. Shakespeare
Q: The expressive device making the music directly reflect the meaning of the words is known as: a. word-painting. c. virelai. b. chanson. d. madrigal.
Q: What two important secular genres arose from the union of poetry and music? a. the English ballad and French chanson b. the French chanson and Italian madrigal c. the Italian madrigal and the English ballad d. the French chanson and Polish mazurka
Q: Which of the following best describes the character of Farmers Fair Phyllis? a. devotional and moralizing c. pastoral and light b. courtly and idealized d. bombastic and heavy
Q: The syllables fa la la appeared in the refrains of secular music from _____. a. Italy c. England b. France d. Spain
Q: The late Renaissance madrigal came to full flower in the music of: a. Claudio Monteverdi. c. Guillaume Du Fay. b. Hildegard of Bingen. d. Josquin des Prez.
Q: Where was the madrigal first developed? a. England c. France b. Italy d. Germany
Q: Which of the following was the most important secular genre of the sixteenth century? a. the galliard c. the madrigal b. the chanson d. the rondeau
Q: Which culture developed a complex tradition of social part song, in which separate musical lines are combined into a harmonious whole? a. Islamic c. Chinese b. Western d. Indian
Q: Describe how the work of Machaut reflects the musical style known as Ars nova.
Q: Describe how Machaut conveys puzzles through sound in Ma fin est mon commencement (My end is my beginning).
Q: The rondeau, ballade, and virelai are the poetic forms that established the musical repetition scheme of the chansons.
Q: The chanson is a religious song with a French text.
Q: Machaut wrote both religious and secular music.
Q: Ars nova appeared in the early 1500s in Spain.
Q: Troubadours and trouvres were poet-musicians who flourished at the various courts of Europe.
Q: Ma fin est mon commencement (My end is my beginning) includes palindromes, words or phrases that read the same backward or forward.
Q: Machauts music was not appreciated during his own lifetime.
Q: Machaut was both a cleric and a courtier.
Q: Machaut was the first composer to self-consciously collect his works and leave them for posterity.
Q: Medieval lyrics dealt with unrequited, or unconsummated, passion, just as in many songs today.
Q: What were the four topics considered essential to education during medieval times? a. English, science, mathematics, and history b. music, mathematics, geometry, and astronomy c. music, science, Latin, and astronomy d. Latin, mathematics, science, and religion
Q: Machaut had a double career as both a courtier and a ______. a. noble. c. farmer. b. cleric. d. miller.
Q: Who is the foremost poet-composer of the Ars nova? a. Hildegard c. Charles, duke of Normandy b. Machaut d. Petrarch
Q: _____ ushered in developments in rhythm, meter, harmony, and counterpoint that transformed the art of music. a. Ars nova c. Ars musica b. Ars antiqua d. Rondeau
Q: Which poetic forms established the musical repetition scheme of the chansons? a. rondeau and virelai c. rondeau, ballade, and virelai b. virelai and ballade d. rondeau and ballade
Q: In Machauts secular works, he favored French courtly love poems known as: a. chansons. c. odes. b. ballades. d. palindromes.
Q: Machaut favored what type of themes? a. religious c. secular b. liturgical d. vernacular
Q: What musical style appeared in the early 1300s in France? a. Ars antiqua c. troubadour b. Ars nova d. chanson
Q: What were the poet-musicians that lived on a higher social level than other wandering musicians called? a. minstrels c. troubadours and trouvres b. jesters d. none of the answers shown here
Q: Who was the ancient Greek mathematician renowned for his musical experiments? a. Pythagoras c. Socrates b. Plato d. Machaut
Q: How long has music been linked with mathematics and geometry? a. since the 1750s c. since the Renaissance b. since antiquity d. since the late 1900s
Q: Why is Hildegard of Bingens Alleluia, O virga mediatrix not considered Gregorian chant?
Q: Describe the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on music in the Middle Ages.
Q: The church canonized Hildegard in 1923.
Q: A setting of plainchant with small groups of notes to a syllable is called neumatic.
Q: Plainchant is polyphonic in texture.
Q: The culture of the medieval era was shaped in large part by the rise of monasteries.
Q: Hildegard elaborates some words with melismas in Alleluia, O virga mediatrix.
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