Chapter 9-12 test

Question 0

What was the Universitas?

Answer 0

Schools and colleges united under one administration

Question 1

Who is Peter Abelard and Heloise?

Answer 1

Lovers that caused a scandal.

He was a cleric and wrote poetry and music about the affair

Question 2

Who is Philip the Chancellor?

Answer 2

The head of the University of Paris

Question 3

What are some facts about the listening Oriented paribus?

Answer 3

Known for humor

Anonymous composer

About fending off bad priests and kings

Melismatic

Question 4

What are some facts about the listening El mois d’avril/O quam sancta/Et gaudebit?

Answer 4

Anonymous motet

Began at the cathedral

Polyphonic

Question 5

What is a cauda?

Answer 5

A coda (tail)

Question 6

What is the close?

Answer 6

Community where the cathedral and university are enclosed in

Question 7

What is the conductus?

Answer 7

Sung as the clergy men moved from place to place

Question 8

What are some facts about the listening Garrit Gallus/In nova fert/Neuma?

Answer 8

By Philippe De Vitry

Renaissance

Polyphonic

Question 9

What is Ars Nova?

Answer 9

Music of the fourteenth century

Question 10

What is a minim?

Answer 10

Subdivision of the semibreve

Question 11

What is a motet?

Answer 11

Many layers of poetic text

Polyphonic

One latin word sung by tenor

Question 11

Who is Philip de Vitry?

Answer 11

Composer, mathematician, astronomer….

Wrote Ars Nova

Question 12

What is the Roman de Fauvel?

Answer 12

Story of corruption in the kingdom

Kings advisor portrayed as an ass

A warning to future kings

Question 13

What is isorhythm?

Answer 13

A repeated rhythmic pattern

Talea is the segment of rhythm that is repeated

Question 14

What is the melodic unit called in an isorhythmic motet?

Answer 14

Color

Question 15

Describe the Hundred Years War?

Answer 15

Machaut the composer fought in this war

The english king wanted to control everything

Question 16

Who is Joan of Arc?

Answer 16

A women who was requested by the church to fight in the war

Question 17

What is the form of a ballade?

Answer 17

AAB

Question 18

What is cantus?

Answer 18

Melody sung by voice

Question 19

What is the form of rondeau?

Answer 19

ABaAabAB

Question 20

What is the form of virelai?

Answer 20

AbbaAbbaAbbaA

Question 21

What is cyclic Mass?

Answer 21

First mass written by Machaut of this kind

All movements if Mass are linked together

Question 22

What are some facts about Estampie?

Answer 22

Anonymous composer

Came from church and university

Courtly dance

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Question 23

What are some facts about Douce dame jolie?

Answer 23

Written by Machaut

Virelai form

Written before 1350

Gentle lyrical manner

Question 24

What are some facts about Kyrie of the Mass of Our Lady?

Answer 24

Written by Machaut in 1360

Longest polyphony piece if the time

Liturgical

Contratenor establish harmonic foundation

Expanded vocal range in music

Question 25

What were the calamities of the 14th century?

How did they affect the musicians and poets of the time?

Answer 25

The Black Death
The Hundred Years War
The Little Ice Age

Poets and musicians (Machaut) wrote about their experiences

Machaut fought in the Hundred Years War and wrote about it