Test 1

Question 1

Also known as Plainsong, chants of the church, first kind of song

Answer 1

Gregorian Chant

Question 2

5 criteria of Gregorian chant

Answer 2

1. ) Unaccompanied vocal music
2. ) Sung in Latin
3. ) No regular meter or rhythm
4. ) All voices singing in unison
5. ) Gender specific (Men and women didn’t sing together.

Question 3

Secular Music

Answer 3

Non-religious music, most of it lost bc musicians couldn’t read or write.

Question 4

Non-secular music

Answer 4

Music of the Church, fairly well-preserved

Question 5

Monophonic Music

Answer 5

1 line/sound of music

Question 6

Polyphonic Music

Answer 6

More than 1 line/sound

Question 7

Melismatic singing

Answer 7

Many notes per syllable (2 or more)

Question 8

Syllabic Singing

Answer 8

1-2 notes per syllable

Question 9

Minstrel

Answer 9

Traveling musicians who performed pre-written material

Question 10

Trubadors

Answer 10

Musicians that did original music, most melodies about love.

Question 11

Organum

Answer 11

Early Church polyphonic music

Question 12

Chansom

Answer 12

1. ) Sung in French
2. ) Secular
3. ) Lovesong
4. ) Polyphonic
5. ) Set to a poem

Question 13

2 kinds of medieval instruments

Answer 13

Hauts (loud) and Bas (soft)
Hauts instruments: Drum, Sackbut, Shawm, Trumpet
Bas instruments: Harp, Lute, Recorder, Rebec, Transverse Flute

Question 14

Motet

Answer 14

1. ) Sung in Latin
2. ) Sung about non-secular subject
3. ) Sung in worship
4. ) Sung A Capella
5. ) Composition for Choir
6. ) No instruments but organ

Question 15

Madrigal

Answer 15

1. ) Piece for several solo voices
2. ) Lovesong
3. ) Sung in any language EXCEPT Latin.
4. ) Utilized word painting.

Question 16

Hildegard of Bingen

Answer 16

First composer we have record of, wrote mainly Gregorian Chant, “O Greenest Branch”

Question 17

Guillame De Mauchut

Answer 17

Composed mainly Organum, created 4-part polyphony.

Question 18

Master Leoninus

Answer 18

Experimented with polyphony in the church, practically created Organum

Question 19

Josquin De Desprez

Answer 19

“Michelangelo of music”, very important RENAISSANCE composer, composed both secular and non-secular music, main area of expertise was motets.

Question 20

Palestrina

Answer 20

Composed Pope Marcellus Mass, showed that music could align with the music of the Catholic Reformation, was dubbed the “Savior of Church Music”, was extremely consistent and had to eliminate melismatic singing from the Church.