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MUS 101 test 1 Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass The Renaissance saw the rise of amateur musicians and home music-making. - ANSWER-True Of the following, which is NOT a major literary landmark of the Middle Ages? - ANSWER-Cervantes's Don Quixote The early exploration of the New World to...

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The Renaissance saw the rise of amateur musicians and home music-making. - ANSWER✔✔-True


Of the following, which is NOT a major literary landmark of the Middle Ages? - ANSWER✔✔-Cervantes's

Don Quixote


The early exploration of the New World took place during the Renaissance. - ANSWER✔✔-True


Of the following, which does NOT represent the thinking of the Renaissance? - ANSWER✔✔-an

exclusively religious orientation


Which historical event did NOT take place in the Renaissance? - ANSWER✔✔-the writing of the Magna

Carta


Hildegard's Alleluia, O virga mediatrix has a neumatic text setting with some melismas. - ANSWER✔✔-

True


The motet differs from organum with its emphasis on triads. - ANSWER✔✔-False


The form of Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is A-A-B. - ANSWER✔✔-False


In the early Middle Ages, music was often written in fixed patterns of long and short notes known as

rhythmic modes. - ANSWER✔✔-True


In what part of the liturgy does the Alleluia occur? - ANSWER✔✔-Mass Proper



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Which of the following was NOT a subject reflected in the poems of the troubadours and trouvères? -

ANSWER✔✔-the rebirth of classical learning


Machaut's chanson Puis qu'en oubli is a ballade for three voices. - ANSWER✔✔-False


Sumer is icumen in is one of the earliest examples of secular polyphony. - ANSWER✔✔-True


Since Machaut was a cleric in the church, he wrote only sacred music. - ANSWER✔✔-False


The medieval ancestor of the modern trombone is: - ANSWER✔✔-the sackbut


What is a cantus firmus? - ANSWER✔✔-A fragment of Gregorian chant or a secular tune used as the

foundation of a polyphonic Mass.


The Renaissance motet became a sacred form with a single Latin text. - ANSWER✔✔-True


Of the following, who was a leader in the Protestant Reformation? - ANSWER✔✔-Martin Luther


The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called: -

ANSWER✔✔-a cantus firmus.


Which genre of vocal music was NOT used in Renaissance church services? - ANSWER✔✔-Chansons


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

ANSWER✔✔-Word painting.


The vivid depiction of the text through music, known as word painting, is a hallmark of: - ANSWER✔✔-

the madrigal


Which of the following was a lively circle or line dance, often performed outdoors? - ANSWER✔✔-ronde




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The text in Arcadelt's madrigal Il bianco e dolce cigno has levels of meanings, some of which are erotic. -

ANSWER✔✔-True


The two most important genres of Renaissance secular music were the chanson and the madrigal. -

ANSWER✔✔-True


Why was the art music of the Middle Ages predominantly religious? - ANSWER✔✔-The church

patronized music extensively.


The late Middle Ages witnessed: - ANSWER✔✔-the building of great cathedrals.


the founding of universities.


the rise of the bourgeoisie.


What characterizes humanism? - ANSWER✔✔-thinking centered on human issues and individuality,

inspiration from the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, and independence from traditional and

religion


The Frankish emperor who encouraged education and the concept of a centralized government was: -

ANSWER✔✔-Charlemagne.


Most of the surviving music from the early Middle Ages is secular. - ANSWER✔✔-False


What is the primary language of the Mass? - ANSWER✔✔-Latin


The early polyphonic genre that resulted from the addition of texts to all voices was called: -

ANSWER✔✔-motet


A setting of Gregorian chant with one note per syllable is called: - ANSWER✔✔-syllabic.




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