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_______ _______ are traditional Latin worship music in the Roman
Catholic Church. - answer Gregorian chants
Fourteenth through seventeenth century Europe was known as the
________ - answer Renaissance
________ was a music style popular from the sixteenth to the
eighteenth century, introducing harmony and replacing modes in
church music. - answer Baroque
A _____________ is an unharmonized chant, frequently called a
Gregorian chan - answer Plainsong
How many modes served as the foundation for plainsongs? - answer
Eight
_____ music is monodic, with tones equal to one-fourth of a full
Western tone. - answer Hindu
Developed in India, the _________ has three to seven gut strings and
12 wire strings - answer Sitar
, With its characteristic modal homophony and rhythm, __________
music increased to 12 tones in the eleventh century and 17 tones in
the thirteenth century. - answer Arabic
Mainly using the organ, ______________ music was originally
considered a spin-off on Greek music, but was then recognized as its
own independent form. - answer Byzantine
The main Byzantine hymn, the _________, is made up of nine odes to
reference the nine canticles of the Old and New Testaments. -
answer Kanon
A series of tones ordered by pitch is called a ______ - answer Scale
There is usually a word at the beginning of a piece of classical music
telling the performer the approximate speed the piece should be
played at. Allegro and Presto are two different instruction words
generally indicating a _______ speed. - answer Fast
__________ refers to the work system of a piano tuner. - answer
Temperament
To indicate a piece uses the C major scale, one says it is in the ______
of C major - answer Key
Using two, or more, keys at the same time is known as _______ -
answer Polytonality
Avoiding a tonal center in a musical piece is known as ________ -
answer Atonality
Composer ____________ created the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
- answer Richard Wagner
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