Test 4

Question 1

Meistersinger

Answer 1

Type of German amateur singer and poet-composer

Question 2

Tablature

Answer 2

A system of notation used for Lute and other string instruments that tells you where to place your hand and fingers

Question 3

Text Painting

Answer 3

The use of metric poetry that matches the rhythm of the music

Question 4

Strophic hymn in the Lutheran tradition; sung by the congregation

Answer 4

Chorale

Question 5

Contrafacta

Answer 5

The practice of replacing the text of a vocal work with a new text while the music remains the same

Question 6

psalter

Answer 6

Published book of Metrical Psalms

Question 7

Metrical Psalm

Answer 7

Metric, rhymed, and strophic vernacular translation of a psalm with a simple melody that repeats for each strophe

Question 8

Anthem

Answer 8

A polyphonic sacred work in English or Anglican religious services

Question 9

The Council of Trent

Answer 9

From 1545-1563. A council that met at Trent in Northern Italy to consider how to respond to the Reformation.
Suppressed local variations in favor of a uniform liturgy.

Question 10

Madrigal

Answer 10

Italian poem having any number of lines, each of seven or eleven syllables.

Question 11

Villancio

Answer 11

Spanish for “peasant”. type of polyphonic music in Spanish. Typically associated with Christmas

Question 12

Frottola

Answer 12

Sixteenth-century genre of Italian polyphonic song in mock-popular style.
Syllabic, homophonic, and diationic, with the melody in the upper voice.

Question 13

Virginal

Answer 13

English name for the Harpsichord

Question 14

Service Music

Answer 14

Anglican service music.
Great service: Melismatic
Short Service: same text but chordal

Question 15

Strophic

Answer 15

Of a poem, consisting of two or more stanzas equal in form. Same music for each stanza

Question 16

Intabulation

Answer 16

Arrangement of a vocal piece for Lute or Keyboard. Written in tablature.

Question 17

Lute Song

Answer 17

English genre of solo song with Lute accompaniment

Question 18

Consort

Answer 18

Family of instruments

Question 19

Vihuela

Answer 19

Spanish relative of the Lute with a flat back and guitar shaped body.

Question 20

Basse Danse

Answer 20

“Low Dance” french dance of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century

Question 21

Pavane

Answer 21

Slow dance in duple meter; in the form AABBCC. Followed by the Galliard

Question 22

Galliard

Answer 22

Dance in triple meter; form AABBCC

Question 23

Organ Mass

Answer 23

Setting for organ of all sections of the Mass for which the organ would play, including organ verses and other pieces.

Question 24

Toccata

Answer 24

Piece for keyboard or Lute resembling an improvisation.

Question 25

Prelude

Answer 25

Introductory piece for solo instrument, often in the style of an improvisation; introductory

Question 26

Fantasia

Answer 26

Instrumental composition that resembles an improv. and lacks strict form

Question 27

ricercare

Answer 27

Italian form of instrumental improv

Question 28

Canzona

Answer 28

An Italian instrumental work adapted from a chanson or composed in a similar style.

Question 29

Poly Choral

Answer 29

For more than one choir

Question 30

Musique Mesuree

Answer 30

French style of text setting, especially in chansons in which stressed syllables get longer notes than unstressed

Question 31

Vernacular

Answer 31

One’s native language

Question 32

Through-composed

Answer 32

As when each stanza or other unit of a poem is set to new music.

Question 33

Branle

Answer 33

French line dance