Final Exam Questions - From 1st Exam

Question 1

In the context of this class, what do the initials T.H.R.M.F.T. represent (list below)?

Answer 1

Texture
Harmony
Rhythm
Melody
Form
Timbre

Question 2

There are five SUNG sections of the Mass Ordinary (excluding Ite, missa est). List them in order.

Answer 2

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnes Dei

Question 3

Briefly explain the difference between plagal and authentic modes.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Give the name of a major contributor (composer or treatise author) for each of the following styles and periods of notation:
Guidonean Notation
Ars Nova Notation
Fanconian Notation

Answer 4

Guidonean Notation: Guido de Arrezo
Ars Nova Notation: Philippe de Vitry
Fanconian Notation: Franco de Colgne

Question 5

Fill in the names of the two missing periods on the blanks in the chart below [above “(ca. 1280)” and “(1300-1425)”].

Answer 5

(ca. 1280): ???

(1300-1425): ???

Question 6

The Babylon Captivity was followed by this period from 1378-1417 when there were rival claims to the papacy in Rome, Avignon and later Pisa.

Answer 6

Papal Schism

Question 7

Two upper notes are raised leading up by a halfstep to the cadential notes usually using musica ficta.

Answer 7

Double leading-tone cadence

Question 8

Style of polyphony from fourteenth-century France distinguished from earlier styles by a new system of rhythmic notation that allowed duple or triple division of note values, syncopation, and great rhythmic flexibility.

Answer 8

Ars Nova

Question 9

An idealized love for an unattainable woman who is admired from a distance. Chief subject oft he troubadours and trouveres.

Answer 9

Courtly love

Question 10

French forme fixes with a single stanza and the musical form AbaAabAB; capital letters indicating the lines of refrain and lower case letters indicating new text set to music from the refrain.

Answer 10

Rondeau

Question 11

Style of polyphony from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, associated with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Ornate; first polyphony to be primarily composed and read from notation rather than improvised; rhythmic modes developed as a result.

Answer 11

Notre Dame Polyphony