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