Quiz 6

Question 1

“New art”, the refined, complex style of polyphony in fourteenth-century France.

Answer 1

Ars Nova

Question 2

French monophonic or polyphonic song, especially of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, set to either courtly or popular poetry. Secular.

Answer 2

Chansons

Question 3

What is important about “My End is My Beginning”?

Answer 3

Good example of Ars Nova, or the new way of doing things. 3 voices singing, and the song is a Palindrome. Creation of Chords are new.

Question 4

Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments, set to a short, lyric love poem; also popular in England.

Answer 4

Madrigal

Question 5

In order for something to be a song, it must have _

Answer 5

Words

Question 6

Musical pictorialization of words as an expressive device, a prominent feature of the Renaissance madrigal.

Answer 6

Word Painting

Question 7

A man from England. Wrote Fair Phyllis. Important because he is one of the first few composers to make music. Most of it had been passed down through oral transmission.

Answer 7

John Farmer

Question 8

Big person during the Ars Nova, and experimented with polyphonic music.

Answer 8

Machaut

Question 9

What is important about Fair Phyllis?

Answer 9

Uses word painting. 4 voices, SATB. A Cappella Choir. Not sacred because it’s in English.