Test - August 10, 2024 - 70 minutes

Question 1

1 - Name the individual, group, or publication title most closely assoicated with the following description.

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church from 590 to 604 who organized and codified plainchants.

Question 2

2 - Give the title of a composition, collection, or treatise for the following.

A practical guide to all aspects of keyboard performance by CPE Bach

Question 3

3 - Identify the era that most closely associated with the following publiciations, and give a description of its contents.

Musica enchiriadis

Question 4

4 - Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The Council of Trent banned the use of secular cantus firmus.

Question 5

5 - Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The solo concerto of this era often featured a double exposition.

Question 6

6 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

English Madrigal

Question 7

7 -Identify the historical era (Middles Ages, Renassiance, Baroque or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

Instrumental music from this era was often written for consorts of instruments.

Question 8

8 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

String Quartet

Question 9

9 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

The sonta cycle served as the primary form for instrumental music.

Question 10

10 - Identify the historical era (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, or Classical) most closely associated with each of the following statement.

Notre Dame School

Question 11

11 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He pubished his Traite de l’harmonie in 1722.

Question 12

12 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed over 100 symphonies, many of which were humorous in nature.

Question 13

13 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a composer’s name more than once.

He expolited the technological improvements to the piano in his thirty-two piano sonatas.

Question 14

14 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed many works in “sets”, including two- and three-part inventions, English Suites and French Suites.

Question 15

15 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church who organized and codified the chant repertoire.

Question 16

16 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

His association with Johann Christian Bach influenced his piano concerto writing.

Question 17

17 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements.

His vocal lyricism and use of word painting established this compsoer as the most significant figure in early English opera.

Question 18

18 - Name the composer most closely associated with each of the following statements.

He somtimes imposed imposed instrumental forms such as sonata form on vocal numbers in his operas.

Question 19

19 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

This 13th century composer wrote three- and four-voice organum with substitute clausulae.

Question 20

20 - Name the composer or individual most closely associated with the following statement. Composers must be chosen from those required for this examination. You may use a name more than once.

He composed the first complete polyphonic setting of the mass.

Question 21

21 - For the definition below, provide the term:
The second section of the Mass Ordinary

Question 22

22 - For the definition below, provide the term:

ABACA or ABACABA; a form often used in a sonata cycle

Question 23

23 - For the definition below, provide the term:

Musical pictorialization in which the music mirrors the literal meaning of the words.

Question 24

24 - For the definition below, provide the term:
A speech-like, declamatory style of singing supported by continuo

Question 25

25 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A Baroque genre that typically include an allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue.

Question 26

26 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A five-part form (ABACA) frequently used in the Classical era.

Question 27

27 - For the definition below, provide the term:
The 13th century practice of using two or more texts simultaneousl

Question 28

28 - For the definition below, provide the term:
An Elizabethan vocal genre that often used nonsense syllables

Question 29

29 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A solo song in a ternary form used in Baroque operas and oratorios

Question 30

30 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A popuar Baroque keyboard instrument in which small quills pluck the strings

Question 31

31 - For the definition below, provide the term:

The fourth section of the Mass Proper

Question 32

32 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A texture that consists of a single line of melody

Question 33

33 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A multi-movement choral work that performed part of the Lutheran church service

Question 34

34 - For the definition below, provide the term:

An ars nova technique in which two voices combine to create a single melody: one resting while the other sings

Question 35

35 - For the definition below, provide the term:

Two or more texts heard simultaneously

Question 36

36 - For the definition below, provide the term:

the voice that contains the cantua firmus, from the Latin for “to hold”

Question 37

37 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A French aristocratic poet-musician in northern France in the Middle Ages

Question 38

38 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A song type embraced by English madralists; from the the Italian for “little dance”

Question 39

39 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A three-part form (ABA)

Question 40

40 - For the definition below, provide the term:

A solo song in an opera, oratorio, or cantata

Question 41

41 - Answer the following questions for the audio clip:
* Title:
* Composer:
* Texture:
* Era:
* Identify the collection that includes this work:

Bonus: Name two instruments that might have performed this work in the era it was written.

Question 42

42 - Answer the following questions for the audio clip:
* Title:
* Composer:
* Genre:
* Era:
* Give the term for the group of instruments that play this theme:

Bonus: Name two instruments featured in this group:

Question 43

43 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Form:
• Era:
• Identify the collection that includes this work:

Bonus: Name two instruments that might have performed this work in the era it was written.

Question 44

44 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Form of this movement:
• Era:
• Name the key of the teheme’s second statement:

Bonus: Identify and briefly explain one musical featureof this movement>

Question 45

45 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title of complete work:
• Composer:
• Genre:
• Era
• Identify the form of this movement:

Bonus: Name the rhythmic device featured in this audio

Question 46

46 - Answer the the following questions for the audio clip:

• Title:
• Composer:
• Texture:
• Era:
• Identify the instrument that introduces this theme.

Bonus: Name the key of the second entry.