Exam 1 - People

Question 1

Seikilos

Answer 1

recorded the first type of written notation

Question 2

Guido of Arezzo

Answer 2

contextualized neumes, and conceptualized solfege

Question 3

Medici family

Answer 3

prominent Italian family that financed many musician in the Renaissance

Question 4

Pope Gregory

Answer 4

Canonized and compiled plain-chant for the Church

Question 5

Guillaume de Machaut

Answer 5

developed first uses of Isorhythm

Question 6

Venice

Answer 6

the NYC of the renaissance, center of culture and Trade

Question 7

Hildegard of Bingen

Answer 7

early medieval composer, earliest woman we know of to compose

Question 8

Giovanni Gabrieli

Answer 8

early Baroque, developed a sonata, Antiphony

Question 9

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Answer 9

employer of Ventadorn

Question 10

Josquin Desprez

Answer 10

High renaissance composer, used cantus firmus, word painting

Question 11

Claudio Monteverdi

Answer 11

great opera composer wrote orfeo, poppea

Question 12

Bernart de Ventadorn

Answer 12

famous trouvere, many other works of the time based on his

Question 13

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Answer 13

convinced pope that composing for the church was okay

Question 14

Léonin

Answer 14

first great composer of Organum

Question 15

Notre Dame

Answer 15

place of the famous cathedral, housed a great choir school

Question 16

Thomas Weelkes

Answer 16

English Madrigal composer in the late Renaissance

Question 17

Pérotin

Answer 17

one of the first famous organum composers, student of Leonin

Question 18

Peri and Caccini

Answer 18

first early opera composers, part of the florentine cameratta

Question 19

Florentine Camerata

Answer 19

group of intellectuals, said music corrupt, returned to ancient music

Question 20

Florence

Answer 20

birthplace of opera

Question 21

Tielman Susato

Answer 21

Dutch composer, wrote “Dondery” or dance party

Question 22

Reims

Answer 22

place where Mauchaut had his debut for the proper mass

Question 23

Arcangelo Corelli

Answer 23

Master of the violin, standardized Concerto/ sonatas