Chanson

Question 1

Ce fut en mai is composed by

Answer 1

Moniot d’Arras

Question 2

What term does “monophonic pieces composed in the 12th and 13th centuries and often performed with improvised accompaniment” refer to?

Answer 2

chanson

Question 3

Which composer is “(ca 1213-1239) was a monk who lived and worked at the Abbey of St. Vaast in France” referring to?

Answer 3

Moniot d’Arras

Question 4

What term does “lived and worked in northern France” refer to?

Answer 4

trouvère

Question 5

What term does “a song structure in which the same music is performed for each verse of the poem” refer to?

Answer 5

strophic form

Question 6

What term does “lived and worked in southern France” refer to?

Answer 6

troubadour

Question 7

Ce fut en mai has a structure of
A. ABAB
B. AABB
C. ABAABA

Answer 7

B. AABB

Question 8

Which composer is “his monophonic secular songs using modal melodies which would have likely been performed with an improvised accompaniment” referring to?

Answer 8

Moniot d’Arras

Question 9

Which composer is “he was among the last composers in the trouvère tradition” referring to?

Answer 9

Moniot d’Arras

Question 10

Ce fut en mai is what genre

Answer 10

chanson

Question 11

What term does “French for “finder” or “inventor”” refer to?

Answer 11

trouvère

Question 12

What term does “composed and performed original poems and songs, often on the subject of courtly love” refer to?

Answer 12

troubadour and trouvère

Question 13

What term does “a secular song with French text” refer to?

Answer 13

chanson

Question 14

Ce fut en mai is about:

Answer 14

a lover who sees two other lovers and is sad because his love does not love him in the same way.
The knight and the lady council him and he goes away comforted

Question 15

What term does “aristocratic poet-musicians” refer to?

Answer 15

troubadour and trouvère

Question 16

Polyphonic chanson became common by the…

Answer 16

14th century

Question 17

What characteristics make Ce fut en mai a typical 13th-century chanson?

Answer 17

based on modal melodies,
strophic form

Question 18

Ce fut en mai is about:

Answer 18

a lover who sees two other lovers and is sad because his love does not love him in the same way.
The knight and the lady council him and he goes away comforted

Question 19

Who was one of the most prolific composers of Chanson?

Answer 19

Guillaume de Machaut

Question 20

What term does “from the 14th century on, polyphonic settings were generally preferred based on the formes fixes” refer to?

Answer 20

chanson

Question 21

Which composer is “writing both sacred and secular music” referring to?

Answer 21

Moniot d’Arras

Question 22

What term does “as a result, little connection can be achieved between the words and music” refer to?

Answer 22

strophic form