Mus 100 Unit 2

Front 1

The __________ is a catch-all term for nearly a thousand years of history: 400-1400 CE

Back 1

Middle Ages

Front 2

Another name for the Middle Ages is __________

Back 2

Medieval Period

Front 3

The Medieval music scene was dominated by the __________

Back 3

Church

Front 4

The popular musicians during the middle ages were known as __________

Back 4

Jongleurs

Front 5

True or False: plainchant was written for services involving the commoners

Back 5

False

Front 6

Vere Dignum is an example of __________

Back 6

Plainchant

Front 7

Plainchant is widely known as __________, for Pope Gregory I, who is reputed to have assembled and organized all the chants for the church in his time.

Back 7

Gregorian chant

Front 8

Name the Medieval Modes

Back 8

Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian

Front 9

All plainchant is based on the __________ modes of the scale.

Back 9

Medieval

Front 10

An __________ is a plainchant that is melodic in style and does not display many melismas

Back 10

Antiphon

Front 11

A __________ is the singing many notes to a single vowel

Back 11

Melisma

Front 12

"In Paradisum" is an example of Gregorian __________

Back 12

Antiphon

Front 13

There is a plainchant genre called a __________ which includes a series of short tunes sung twice with an extra unit on the end (AA,BB,CC...N)

Back 13

Sequence

Front 14

"Columba aspexit" by Hildegard of Bingen is an example of a

Back 14

Sequence

Front 15

Over the long span of the Middle Ages, kings and barons gained political power at the expense of the

Back 15

Church

Front 16

A new class of musicians arose in the growing courts of the late Medieval period. They were called __________ (S France), __________ (N France), and __________(Germany)

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Troubadours (S France)
Trouveres (N France)
Minnesingers (Germany)

Front 17

How did troubadours differ from jongleurs?

Back 17

They were noble men and women or worked for the courts.

Front 18

"La dousa votz" by Bernart de Ventadorn is an example of a __________

Back 18

Troubadour song

Front 19

Though very few have survived, the __________ is a dance from the courts of the late Middle Ages which was part of the Trouvere repertoire

Back 19

Estampie

Front 20

When did polyphony evolve in Europe?

Back 20

Late middle ages

Front 21

The earliest type of polyphony is called __________

Back 21

Organum

Front 22

An organum is a traditional plainchant to which a composer has added a new "counterpoint." Does the new counterpoint use the same words, or new words as the original plainchant?

Back 22

It uses the same words.

Front 23

Perotin's "Alleluia, Diffusa est gratia" is an example of __________

Back 23

Organum

Front 24

An motet is a traditional plainchant to which a composer has added a new "counterpoint." Does the new counterpoint use the same words, or new words as the original plainchant?

Back 24

It uses new words.

Front 25

True or false: motets are always sacred

Back 25

False

Front 26

True or false: the words for the "new" melody of a motet can use French or Latin

Back 26

True

Front 27

True or false: Motet means the same thing in the Medieval period as it does in the Rennaissance

Back 27

False

Front 28

After 1300 CE polyphony reached new heights of complexity, and composers began to call this new complexity __________ or "New Art"

Back 28

Ars Nova

Front 29

Guillaume de Machaut's "Quant en Moi" is an example of a __________ in the ___________style

Back 29

Motet; Ars Nova

Front 30

Ars Nova motets used a rhythmic device called __________, which is the use of a repeated rhythmic motive

Back 30

Isorhythm

Front 31

The Renaissance is a period from roughly ______ to _______

Back 31

1400-1600 CE

Front 32

The word Renaissance is a word meaning __________

Back 32

Rebirth

Front 33

True or false: Renaissance composers were still obliged to use plainchants as a basis for their works

Back 33

False

Front 34

5. When Renaissance composers did use a plainchant in their works, they often used a technic called __________, which allowed them to use the essence of the melody, but modify it to their needs

Back 34

Paraphrase

Front 35

The hallmarks of the Renaissance style are a blending of __________ and __________

Back 35

Homophony and Polyphonic Imitation

Front 36

Guillame DuFay’s “Ave Maris Stella” is an example of a harmonized __________

Back 36

Hymn

Front 37

The __________ is the most important service of the Catholic church, and composers wrote music for specific sections of it.

Back 37

Mass

Front 38

The 5 musical parts of the Mass are:

Back 38

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei

Front 39

A __________ is a French secular song that emerged during the renaissance that displayed a simpler, gentler style than motets

Back 39

Chanson

Front 40

Did polyphony get more or less imitative during the period between 1400 and 1500?

Back 40

More

Front 41

The “Pange Lingua” Mass is an example of a mass in the __________ style

Back 41

Renaissance

Front 42

The first master of the High Renaissance style was __________

Back 42

Josquin Desprez (Josquin will suffice)

Front 43

True or false: 17. By the time of Josquin, music was seen as an expressive device for conveying feelings, images, and more

Back 43

True

Front 44

True or false: Renaissance composers were very concerned with conveying meaning and emotion in their works

Back 44

True

Front 45

True or false: Medieval composers were very concerned with conveying meaning and emotion in their works

Back 45

False

Front 46

The two techniuques Renaissance composers used to add meaning and impact to the words of their pieces were __________ and __________

Back 46

Declamation and Word Painting

Front 47

The Renaissance style was universal enough that it included composers
a. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina from __________
b. Roland de Lassus from __________
Tomas Luis de Victoria from __________
d. William Byrd from __________

Back 47

Italy
Netherlands/Germany
Spain
England

Front 48

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s “Pope Marcellus” Mass is an example of a mass in the late __________ style

Back 48

Renaissance

Front 49

True or false: 7. The 16th Century Motet is much different than the motet composed in the 15th century.

Back 49

True

Front 50

The ____ century __________ is a relatively short, generally sacred composition to Latin words that used the homophony and imitative polyphony that mark the Renaissance style.

Back 50

16th century motet

Front 51

The ideal of music as expression saw the most progress in a new Italian genre called a __________

Back 51

Madrigal

Front 52

The __________ originated in Italy in around 1530 and is a short composition set to a one-stanza poem – typically a love poem – with a rapid turnover of ideas and images

Back 52

Madrigal

Front 53

The English Madrigal is essentially similar to the Italian madrigal, but with a couple key differences: __________ and __________

Back 53

English words
Popular in the 1600 (much later)

Front 54

“As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending” by Thomas Weelkes is an example of a __________

Back 54

Madrigal

Front 55

True or false; because so much emphasis in the Renaissance period was on vocal music, instruments like the violin did not begin to mature until the Baroque period

Back 55

False

Front 56

True or false: In the late Renaissance the Madrigal was the most “advanced” form of music when it came to expression

Back 56

True

Front 57

True or false: in mainland Europe in the early 1600s there began a reaction against the madrigal as it became all the rage in England

Back 57

True

Front 58

Early baroque critics attacked __________ as childish and ineffective in conveying emotion

Back 58

Word painting

Front 59

In the early baroque, music was often written that employed a __________, which was a group of musicians who provided improvised accompaniment to a given melody

Back 59

Basso continuo

Front 60

In the early baroque a repeating bass line was known as (a) __________

Back 60

Basso ostinato (or) Ground Bass

Front 61

__________ sees it’s debut with Claudio Menteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea in 1642

Back 61

Opera

Front 62

The opera was made possible with the invention of a technique called __________ in which the singer “recites” sections of text to move the story along

Back 62

Recitative

Front 63

A(n) __________ is an extended opera piece set for solo singer.

Back 63

Aria

Front 64

__________ is drama presented in music

Back 64

Opera

Front 65

One of the overriding characteristics of Baroque music is the balance of __________ and ___________

Back 65

Extravagance and Control

Front 66

__________ is the most characteristic art form of the Baroque period

Back 66

Opera

Front 67

Who wrote the first opera in 1607?

Back 67

(Claudio) Monteverdi

Front 68

Our example from The Coronation of Poppea is an example of Baroque opera __________ and __________

Back 68

Recitative and Aria

Front 69

Opera was made possible with the invention of a technique called __________, in which the singer “recites” sections of text to move the story along

Back 69

Recitative

Front 70

__________ is an extended piece for solo singer with more musical elaboration and coherence than recitative

Back 70

Aria

Front 71

“Dido’s Lament” from Dido and Aeneas is an example of a baroque opera __________

Back 71

Aria

Front 72

Baroque instrumental music gained popularity in collections of dances called __________

Back 72

Suites

Front 73

True or false: Baroque dance suites were used for evening dances in the courts of the noblemen

Back 73

Fals

Front 74

Instrumental music gained its inspiration from three sources: __________, __________, and __________

Back 74

Dance, Virtuousity, and Vocal music

Front 75

Polyphony became popular in instrumental music in the form of the __________, which is a strict imitative form of polyphony

Back 75

Fugue

Front 76

Instrumental composers wrote sets of __________, or pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while changing others around them

Back 76

Variations

Front 77

Girolamo Frescobaldi’s Suite is an example of a baroque dance __________

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Suite