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The period of the Middle Ages dates from

CE 476 - 1450

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________ is traditionally associated with collecting and organizing the chants of the church.

Pope Gregory the Great

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Plainchant is also known as Gregorian chant.

True

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Which of the following does NOT characterize plainchant?

triadic harmonies

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Plainchant utilizes modes. What are modes?

scales that pre-date the major and minor system

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Which of the following women was a religious leader and a prominent figure in literature and music?

Hildegard of Bingen

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The knowledge of early civilizations and the culture of the Middle Ages were preserved largely in monasteries.

True

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The order of church services and the structure of each service are known as the liturgy.

True

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The earliest type of polyphony was:

organum.

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The first major center of polyphony was:

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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Who is credited with compiling the Great Book of Organum (Magnus liber organi)?

Léonin

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The period of the Renaissance dates from

CE 1450 - 1600

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The Roman Catholic Church service is known as a / an __________.

Mass

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The portion of the Mass that remains the same in every celebration of the service is called:

the Ordinary.

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The portion of the Mass that changes from day to day, depending on the feast celebrated, is called:

the Proper.

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What was the primary language of the Mass?

Latin

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

Martin Luther

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In the Protestant church, the musical emphasis was on:

congregational singing.

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After the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as:

the Counter-Reformation.

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20

The Council of Trent recommended the following:

1. Removing all secularism from church music.

2. Making the words more understandable.

3. Disciplining the irreverent attitudes of church musicians

True

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Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion, and is credited for "saving" the Mass?

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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The expressive device that Renaissance composers used to pictorialize words musically is called:

word-painting.

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Where was the madrigal first developed?

Italy

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Only professional musicians performed secular music during the Renaissance.

False

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False

True

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Secular, vocal music of the Renaissance was performed

in vernacular languages

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The printing press had little impact on secular music.

False

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Medieval and Renaissance instruments were classified as bas or haut, meaning these two things:

soft and loud

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The sixteenth century saw a blossoming of instrumental dance music.

True

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Instrumental music of the sixteenth century often did not specify its instrumentation.

True

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In what modern-day country gave birth to the Renaissance?

Italy

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What is the Danserye?

 

a collection of instrumental dances from 1551

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Which of the following characterizes humanism?

all of the above

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Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed?

Josquin des Prez

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Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . virgo serena is an example of a/n:

motet.

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The period of the Baroque dates from

CE 1600 - 1750

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A large vocal genre that includes acting, costumes, and scenery is called a(n):

opera.

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What is a virtuoso?

a performer with remarkable technical skill

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Which secular medieval musicians entertained audiences at the higher social levels?

troubadours

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The term ars nova means ...

new art

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In times such as the Baroque era, when women had few choices in their lives, what was the only honorable alternative to marriage?

entering a convent

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Barbara Strozzi was

a Baroque female secular composer.

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What was one of Martin Luther’s most important and lasting contributions to Western culture?

the idea that musical worship belongs to the congregation

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Which describes the performing forces of a cantata?

soloists, chorus, and orchestra

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Bach wrote many of his most important works for which instrument?

organ

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This family of instruments prevalent in the Baroque that were replaced in ensembles by modern strings.

viol de gamba

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Repetition is typical in folk dance music.

True

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The set of keys on a harpsichord, or organ are also referred to a manuals.

True

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Some prominent composers have letters and numbers after the title of their works (i.e.  Bach's "Little" Fugue in G, BWV 578). This indicates what?

It indicates the existance of a complete works catalogue.

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Which of William Billing's compositions was popular during the Revolutionary War and considered by some to be the country's first national anthem?

Chester

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Who are some of the men that comprise the First New England School of composers?

Williams Billings, Daniel Reed, Stephen Jenks, Francis Hopkins

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What was the name of the psalster brought to New England by the Pilgrims in 1620?

The Ainsworth Psalster

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Which era in music history did the major / minor tonality system solidify, homophony become the prevailing texture, and we see purely instrumental genres begin to proliferate?

Baroque

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In which era of music history was monophony prevalent, polyphony began, tonality was modal, and nearly all known music was for the church?

Middle Ages

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In which era of music history did music continue to be polyphonic, the mass was an important genre, and secular music emerge.

Renaissance

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In which era of music history is Opera considered to be the most important new genre of music?

Baroque

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The Classical period in music ranged from approximately:

1750 to 1825.

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What European city was the center of music and culture in the Classical period?

Vienna

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What is the difference between "classical" and Classical music?

the term classical is used to describe all types of Western Art music; Classical works are those written and exemplifying the stylistic characteristics found from 1750 to 1825

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Music composed without literary or pictorial meanings is called:

absolute music.

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In musical compositions, a theme is:

a musical idea that is used as a building block.

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A composer can fragment a theme by dividing it into smaller units called:

motives.

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In the Classical multimovement cycle, the 1st movement is usually in what form.

sonata- allegro

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Which movement of a symphony is traditionally the slowest?

the second movement

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What is the typical form of the 3rd movement of a Classical Symphony?

minuet and trio (dance)

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A string quartet consists of:

two violins, viola, and cello.

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Which group of instruments was the nucleus of the Classical orchestra?

strings

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The term symphony refers to ...

an ensemble and a genre

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The nickname “father of the symphony” was earned by:

Haydn.

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The three main sections of sonata-allegro form are the exposition, the development, and the:

recapitulation.

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Which composer was a musical prodigy who died at the age of 35?

Mozart

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Which composer both maintained and disrupted the balance of the Classical style and was a transitional figure into the Romantic period?

Beethoven

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Which of the following best describes the motive of Beethoven Symphony No. 5?

all of the above

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The Romantic period in music ranged from approximately

1820 - 1900

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The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new social order shaped by the middle class and:

the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

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Which of the following does NOT describe orchestras of the nineteenth century?

The size of orchestras decreased, making for more compact ensembles.

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Changes in instrumentation (types and numbers) along with how they were used in the music help to differentiate the historical periods.

True

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An interest in folklore and folk music resulted from the rise of nationalism.

True

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The German term for the art song is:

Lied.

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Two important composers of nineteenth-century Lieder:

Schubert and Schumann

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A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called a(n):

song cycle

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A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called:

through composed.

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The most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period was the:

piano

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During the Romantic era, piano music was intended for professional performers only.

False

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Which of the following was a noted women composers of the Romantic era?

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

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Instrumental music endowed with literary, philosophical, or pictorial associations is called:

program music

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Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:

program symphony.

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In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, the idée fixe:

all of the above

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Orchestration is:

the practice of writing music for orchestra

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Which composer is considered the single most important figure in the artistic world of the latter half of the nineteenth century?

Wagner

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Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

Claude Debussy.

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Dvořák encouraged American composers to take inspiration from European immigrants, Native and African Americans.

True

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Which Bohemian composer was a well-known and respected conductor?

 

Gustav Mahler

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Gustav Mahler was ...

all of the above

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Which of the following describes music in America during the early nineteenth century?

Music was largely imported from Europe.

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Which nineteenth-century American composer is best remembered for his parlor songs and minstrel show tunes?

Stephen Foster

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The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from:

 

Africa.

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African-American slaves in the nineteenth century created a genre of religious song called:

the spiritual.

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Which of the following describes spirituals?

They contained coded messages about earthly escape.

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In African American spirituals, the Biblical Moses is the coded reference to this conductor on the underground railroad.

Hariett Tubman

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