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