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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A the Crusades.
B religion.
C love.
D dancing.
Question #2
A dancelike song for several solo voices.
B piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
C polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text.
D polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
Question #3
A read musical notation.
B All answers are correct.
C play a musical instrument.
D be skilled in dance.
Question #4
A away from the actual religious services.
B with the members of the congregation.
C exclusively in the English language.
D with proper pronunciation and tone quality.
Question #5
A protests of Martin Luther.
B deliberations of the Council of Trent.
C complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
D music of Palestrina.
Question #7
A dancelike song for several solo voices.
B piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
C polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
D polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
Question #8
A The castle
B The king’s court
C The merchant’s living room
D The church
Question #9
A Germany.
B Italy.
C Spain.
D Flanders.
Question #10
A Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.
B Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
C The Renaissance period is sometimes called “the golden age” of a cappella choral music.
D The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic.
Question #11
A Flanders.
B Scandinavia.
C Spain.
D England.
Question #12
A 1450 and 1600.
B 1000 and 1150.
C 1600 and 1750.
D 1150 and 1450.
Question #13
A professors in universities.
B knights in castles.
C wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
D monks in monasteries.
Question #14
A Ave Maria
B Kyrie
C Credo
D Gloria
Question #15
A Guillaume de Machaut.
B Pope Gregory I.
C Leonin.
D Perotin.
Question #16
A the new art of baroque painters.
B Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
C paintings from the new world.
D German music of the sixteenth century.
Question #17
A Leonin and Perotin.
B All answers are correct.
C Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
D Machaut and Josquin.
Question #18
A are the first important composers known by name.
B were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
C indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
D All answers are correct.
Question #19
A having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
B harmonizing melodies with chords.
C placing new melodic lines against known chants.
D adding orchestral instruments to church music.
Question #20
A London.
B Reims.
C Paris.
D Rome.
Question #21
A Jongleurs
B Alleluia
C Ostinato
D Organum
Question #22
A the French nobles began to sing hunting songs together.
B All answers are correct.
C monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant.
D musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
Question #23
A The Madonna was treated as a beautiful young woman.
B The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
C The humanists focused on human life and its accomplishments.
D The humanists were captivated by the pagan cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.
Question #24
A stringed instrument.
B dance.
C secular song form.
D song of worship.
Question #25
A monasteries.
B monks and nuns.
C dancing.
D church services.
Question #26
A All answers are correct.
B performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
C played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
D lived on the lowest level of society.
Question #27
A Frauenlob.
B Hildegard of Bingen.
C Péronne d’Armentières.
D Beatriz de Dia.
Question #28
A the monks at the church of St. Trophime.
B the nuns of Rupertsberg.
C Pope Gregory I.
D Hildegard of Bingen.
Question #29
A a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
B All answers are correct.
C the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
D abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
Question #30
A may be translated as “praise ye the Lord.”
B is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
C is often used in Gregorian chants.
D All answers are correct.
Question #31
A like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.
B different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
C completely different from any other form of scale.
D different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five different tones.
Question #32
A focused on human life and its accomplishments.
B condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
C treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
D focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell.
Question #33
A ninth
B fourteenth
C thirteenth
D sixth
Question #34
A the worship service and the praise service.
B the monastery and the convent.
C the salvation service and the holiness service.
D the office and the mass.
Question #35
A published all of the Gregorian chants.
B composed all of the Gregorian chants.
C All answers are correct.
D reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
Question #36
A by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
B infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
C stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
D only by perfect intervals.
Question #37
A It is usually polyphonic in texture.
B It conveys a calm, otherworldly quality.
C The melodies tend to move by step within a narrow range of pitches.
D Its rhythm is flexible, without meter.
Question #38
A was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
B retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
C All answers are correct.
D is set to sacred Latin texts.
Question #39
A contemporary gospel.
B estampies.
C Trouvère songs.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A preferred instrumental music in
B wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
C encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
D forbade the use of music in
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B used only as a discreet accompaniment.
C banned entirely.
D performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
Question #42
A bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
B made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
C added a sacred quality to the mass.
D frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
Question #43
A silly, humorous dance in duple meter.
B wooden instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece.
C lively dance in triple meter.
D stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
Question #44
A association with minstrels and jongleurs.
B earlier role in pagan rites.
C sacred quality and background.
D use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
Question #45
A the concert hall.
B dancing.
C the piano.
D religious worship.
Question #46
A A wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
B Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.
C Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
D Secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music.
Question #47
A four
B five
C three
D two
Question #48
A imitative
B homophonic
C polyphonic
D monophonic
Question #49
A lute
B shawm
C regals
D sackbut
Question #50
A 1150-1450.
B 450-1000.
C 1000-1150.
D 450-1450.
