Exploring Music Quiz 2 Review

Question 1

Syllabic

Answer 1

1 note per syllable of text (i.e. star spangled banner)

Question 2

Madrigalism (word painting)

Answer 2

A musical setting of a text in a single strophe (stanza)

Question 3

Word painting

Answer 3

Music that imitates, describes, or conjures images of the text being sung

Question 4

Liturgy

Answer 4

a pattern of prayer or worship

Question 5

a cappella

Answer 5

without instrumental accompaniment

Question 6

Gregorian chant (plainchant)

Answer 6

Monophonic vocal music in the medieval church, designed to project religious texts

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

An early-Renaissance intellectual and cultural movement that explored human interests and values through the pursuit of science, philosophy, literature, painting, sculpture, and music, particularly vocal music

Question 8

The Medieval Era (450-1420)

Answer 8

• Monophonic, anonymous, and unaccompanied melodies called plainchant or Gregorian chant
• Meant to teach
• courtly love, heroism, pastoral living, and even explicit texts

Question 9

Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568)

Answer 9

Belgium-born, renaissance-era composer of Italian madrigals, including “Il bianco e colce cigno” (The white swan poem)

Question 10

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Answer 10

• Composed play of virtues
• female medieval composer
• adds leaps for dramatic effect

Question 11

The Play of Virtues (Ordo Virtutum)

Answer 11

• morality plays feature virtues personified as characters in a dramatized struggle of good vs. evil
• The devil has spoken parts
• In latin
• Non-metrical

-Monophonic

Question 12

Melismatic

Answer 12

many notes per syllable of text (Glo-ria)

Question 13

Form of “Behold Spring”

Answer 13

• Complete form: A-B-A-A
• Verse 1 : Music A; statement
• Verse 2: Music B; contrast
• Verse 3: Music A; variation
• Verse 4: Music A; repetition

Question 14

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)

Answer 14

• French court musician who wrote both secular and sacred music

-helped shape the ars nova and demonstrated an unusual level of creative ownership for the period

• one of the first Western artists to discuss his work and methods and one of the first composers to collect and preserve his own music

Question 15

Ars Nova

Answer 15

a French movement of the early 1300s that introduced new complexities of rhythm, meter, and harmony into music

Question 16

Form of “I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady”

Answer 16

• Complete Form: A-A-B
• In French
• Three-voice polyphony

Question 17

“The Talking Sheep” by Alfonso el Sabio

Answer 17

• Complete form: A-A-A-A-B-A-A-B-B-A-A
• primary instrument is the shawm (3 in the song)
• Largely Homophonic with drone bass underneath

Question 18

The Renaissance (1425-1600)

Answer 18

• system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
• Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
• God AND us

Question 19

“The Cricket” by Josquin des Prez

Answer 19

• Complete form: A-B-A
• Word painting with long notes on longo verso (“long line” or “long noise”).
• Polyphonic (four equal voices)

Question 20

“Since Robin Hood” By Thomas Weelkes

Answer 20

• Polyphonic (3 voices)
• Iambic (short-Long)
• In English