Music History

Question 1

When did Charlemagne rule?

Answer 1

768-814

Question 2

When did Pope Gregory I reign?

Answer 2

590-604

Question 3

When did Guido D’Arezzo live?

Answer 3

991-1033

Question 4

When did Hildegard von Bingen live?

Answer 4

1098-1179

Question 5

When did Beatriz de Dia flourish?

Answer 5

1212

Question 6

What song is Beatriz de Dia known for?

Answer 6

A Chantar

Question 7

When were the Cantigas de Santa Maria composed and by whom?

Answer 7

1280 by Alfonso el Sabio

Question 8

What is Organum?

Answer 8

a polyphonic composition in which an existing plainchant melody is combined with one or more improvised or newly composed voices above or below

Question 9

Musica enchiriadis

Answer 9

9th-century treatise that describes the practice of adding polyphonic voice (organum) to chant.

Question 10

Notre Dame Organum

Answer 10

notated polyphony from around 1200 written at Notre Dame cathedral. It has distinctive Texture: lowest voice holds out long notes (tenere=to hold, “tenor”) in drone-like fashion while upper voices (duplum & triplum) move more quickly.

Question 11

Magnus Liber Organi

Answer 11

“The Great Book of Polyphony”, combined by Leonin and Perotin, series of elaborate polyphonic compositions for the main feasts of the church year, based directly on plainchant

Question 12

Guillaume de Machaut

Answer 12

the most important composer of the 14th century, worked in Reims cathedral, wrote sacred and secular compositions. (1300-1377), Messe de Nostre Dame

Question 13

Notation develops to allow duple meter and independent parts in what century?

Answer 13

14th

Question 14

When was the Renaissance?

Answer 14

1400-1600

Question 15

Increased musical patronage followed what?

Answer 15

The Great Schism in 1417

Question 16

contenance angloise

Answer 16

(French, “English guise”) Characteristic quality of early-fifteenth-century English music, marked by pervasive CONSONANCE with frequent use of HARMONIC thirds and sixths, often in parallel motion.

Question 17

When did Guillaume Du Fay live?

Answer 17

1397-1474

Question 18

Josquin des Prez

Answer 18

Lived 1450-1521. His career began and ended in Northern France & Belgium, but he was mostly active in Italy. Most famous and influential composer of the 16th century. Composed Missa Pange Lingua

Question 18

When did printing really begin for polyphonic music?

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1501

Question 19

Johann Walter

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a colleague of Martin Luther who set chorales in polyphony to create a repertory for trained church choirs

Question 20

Anglicanism

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A Protestant denomination of the Christian faith founded by Henry VIII in England in 1534. Continued by Edward VI in 1547

Question 21

Mary Tudor

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Queen of England from 1553 to 1558

Question 22

When was the Church of England fully established?

Answer 22

1558

Question 23

Council of Trent

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Called by Pope Paul III to reform the church and secure reconciliation with the Protestants. Three sessions spanning 1545-1563

Question 24

William Byrd

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Lived 1540-1623. Catholic but composed much Anglican music.

Question 25

G. P. da Palestrina

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(ca. 1525 - 1594), Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass) (Credo in unum Deum)

Question 26

First printer to successfully print polyphonic music in 1501?

Answer 26

Ottavio Petrucci

Question 27

Italian Madrigal

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a setting, for four or more voices, of Italian verse, usually with seven or eleven syllables per line. Emerged in 1530s. Through-composed, unlike 14thcentery madrigal

Question 28

Jacob Arcadelt

Answer 28

Composed Il bianco e dolce cigno (1539), early madrigal

Question 29

Maddalena Casulana

Answer 29

Morir, non può il mio core (1568), Middle Madrigal

Question 30

Carlo Gesualdo

Answer 30

Io pur respiro (1611), Late madrigal (murdered his wife)

Question 31

The Moresca: Canta, Georgia, canta, 1568

Answer 31

Composed by Orlando Lassus for the 1568 Munich wedding of then son of Lassus’s patron, Wilhelm of Bavaria

Question 32

When was Dunstable and what did he write?

Answer 32

15th century, wrote Quam pulchra es

Question 33

When was William Byrd and what did he write?

Answer 33

15th century, O sing joyfully

Question 34

When was Josquin de Prez and what did he write?

Answer 34

15th century, Missa Pange Lingua, Kyrie