Test 1

Question 1

What is a cappella

Answer 1

“in the manner of the chapel”

singing not accompanied by instruments

Question 2

What genres are part of A Cappella

Answer 2

Mass, Motets, Organa, Plainchant

Question 3

what is a drone?

Answer 3

A drone is a sustained, continuous pitch

Question 4

What are church modes?

Answer 4

certain modes (scales) approved by the Catholic Church

Question 5

What is Mass?

Answer 5

A Catholic Church service that is the most important

Question 6

What are Proper pieces?

Answer 6

Pieces in a mass that change their texts

Question 7

What are the 5 Ordinary texts?

Answer 7

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei

Question 8

What is an Ordinary text in Mass?

Answer 8

Texts that are the same everytime you attend, but music changes.

Question 9

wHAT IS PLAINCHANT?

Answer 9

Gregorian Chant. Monophonic (no harmony)
Modal (church modes)
Latin Text (except Kyrie)

Question 10

What is neumatic text settings?

Answer 10

Contain a few notes per syllable

Question 11

What is Melismatic text settings?

Answer 11

Contain a lot of notes per syllable

Question 12

What is Syllabic text settings?

Answer 12

Contain one not per syllable

Question 13

What is Recitation?

Answer 13

A type of Plainchant. Where one pitch is dominant throughout

Question 14

What is organum?

Answer 14

Take a preexisting chant and write new melodic lines to be sung with it.

Question 15

What is a troubadour?

Answer 15

a composer of nobility who writes songs and stay put

Question 16

What are troubadour songs?

Answer 16

subject matter is secular

Question 17

Who is Hildegard of Bingen?

Answer 17

girl tithed to the church when young, is a saint, Ordo Virtutum

Question 18

Who is Ulrich von Liechtenstein?

Answer 18

lyrics have survived but music has not

Question 19

What is High Renaissance Style?

Answer 19

music alternates between polyphony and homophony. Lasted from middle to end of era

Question 20

What is renaissance paraphrase technique?

Answer 20

Where the composer starts with a preexisting melody and rewrites it to use within a new composition.

Question 21

What is word painting?

Answer 21

a technique where composers attempt to illustrate through music the words being sung. Ascend to Heaven.

Question 22

What is a Madrigal?

Answer 22

song composed using High Renaissance style for a cappella groups. Often use word painting also.

Question 23

What is a Renaissance Motet?

Answer 23

an a cappella song that is like Madrigal, but sacred and Latin

Question 24

What is Renaissance Mass/

Answer 24

similar to the middle ages but includes High Renaissance style, Parody and Paraphrase

Question 25

What is Renaissance Dance Music?

Answer 25

There are tons of types. Used instruments in various combinations.

Question 26

Who is Carlo Gesualdo?

Answer 26

Renaissance musician. Killed his wife after she had an affair and was not prosecuted. Known for Madrigals.Gelo ha Madonna il seno

Question 27

Who is Thomas Weelkes?

Answer 27

From England, Madrigals, Vezzosi Augelli

Question 28

Who is Giovanni Palestrina?

Answer 28

Repented of writing secular and wrote mostly sacred. Saved polyphony from being banned. Missa Pape Marcelli