Music Test 2

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Many versions of sacred Latin text set to music without accompaniment with only one line of melody, perhaps sung in multiple octaves and is regarded as the first written music is called

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Gregorian Chant

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In the middle ages, musicians worked for the

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church courts and towns.

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The center for musical life in the middle ages was the

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church

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The only place for a woman to receive musical training in the middle ages was in a

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convent

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Medieval composers were not interested in expressing the _________of a text.

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emotions

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Gregorian chanthad flexible rhythms with little sense of

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beat

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The first music written with definite time values and specific pitches was composed by the _____ composers (a cathedral).

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Notre Dame

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Two composers who led the Notre Dame school were

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Leonin and Perotin

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The term used by music theorists to describe the profound changes of Italian and French music in the 14th century was the _____meaning new art.

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Ars Nova

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Sometime between 700 and 900, a second line of music was added to Gregorian chant and was known as

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Organum

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Two or more melodic lines of equal importance is called ______ music.

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polyphonic

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One of the first composers of importance in the middle ages was a woman named

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Hildegard of Bengin

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A famous French composer of the middle ages who wrote one of the first compositions of the period called The Notre Dame Mass was

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Machaut

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_________ is the name given to the time period after the middle ages that gave a complex current thought that worked deep changes in Europe from the 1300's to the 1500's.

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The Renaissance

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______ wrote one of the first operas and called it ________

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Monteverdi_______Orfeo

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An ____is a play that is fully staged and entirely sung.

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opera

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The foremost organ virtuoso of the 16th century was

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Frescobaldi.

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An embellished Gregorian chant with extra notes added, set in graceful rhythms and smoothed out passages is called a

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paraphrase

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Singing without accompaniment is called ___ singing.

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a capella

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____ is a half sung half recited style of presenting words, following speech accents and speech rhythms closely.

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Recitative

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______ was a master composer of the Renaissance style. He brought the 15th century mass to a high climax and pioneered new expressive generas.

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Josquin Desprez

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The ________ ________were predecessors to the piano, in which the strings were plucked instead of struck with hammers.

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harpsichord and the clavichord

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A solemn dance in duple meter, with participants stepping and stomping that was very formal was called a

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pavan

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A plucked string instrument that was a predecessor to the guitar was called the

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lute

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The main secular vocal genera of the Renaissance was the

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madrigal

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Composer of madrigals and one of the finest English composers of the Renaissance was

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Thomas Weelkes

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Emphasizing certain words in a text to give a musical illustration of that word is called

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word painting

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A short sacred vocal composition based on fragments of Gregorian chant was called a

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motet

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The Catholic church service was and still is known as a

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mass

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The type of mass that stays the same and is used on regular days is known as the ____mass.

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ordinary

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The type of mass that changes and is used on special days is called the ____ mass.

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proper

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A mass can also refer to a large piece of music for the entire service with ___ sections

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Five

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The five sections of the ordinary mass are the ____

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1.Kyrie

2.Gloria

3.Credo

4.Sanctus

5. The Agnus Dei.

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______ was acomposer of the early 1400's born in Northern France but worked for over 25 years in Italy. He wrote many settings of the Gregorian hymns and spent his later years as a celebrity in the French cathedral of Cambria.

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Dufay

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A set of chords continuously underlying the melody in a piece of Baroque music, sometimes partially improvised was called the

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basso continuo