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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A religion.
B love.
C dancing.
D the Crusades.
Question #2
A dancelike song for several solo voices.
B polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text.
C piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
D polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
Question #3
A be skilled in dance.
B All answers are correct.
C read musical notation.
D play a musical instrument.
Question #4
A away from the actual religious services.
B exclusively in the English language.
C with the members of the congregation.
D with proper pronunciation and tone quality.
Question #5
A deliberations of the Council of Trent.
B music of Palestrina.
C complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
D protests of Martin Luther.
Question #7
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
B dancelike song for several solo voices.
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 church
B The castle
C The merchant’s living room
D The king’s court
Question #9
A Spain.
B Italy.
C Germany.
D Flanders.
Question #10
A Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.
B The Renaissance period is sometimes called “the golden age” of a cappella choral music.
C Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
D The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic.
Question #11
A Spain.
B England.
C Flanders.
D Scandinavia.
Question #12
A 1450 and 1600.
B 1000 and 1150.
C 1150 and 1450.
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 Gloria
C Kyrie
D Ave Maria
Question #15
A Pope Gregory I.
B Leonin.
C Perotin.
D Guillaume de Machaut.
Question #16
A paintings from the new world.
B Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
C German music of the sixteenth century.
D the new art of baroque painters.
Question #17
A Machaut and Josquin.
B Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
C All answers are correct.
D Leonin and Perotin.
Question #18
A are the first important composers known by name.
B All answers are correct.
C indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
D were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
Question #19
A harmonizing melodies with chords.
B placing new melodic lines against known chants.
C having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
D adding orchestral instruments to church music.
Question #20
A Reims.
B Paris.
C London.
D Rome.
Question #21
A Ostinato
B Jongleurs
C Organum
D Alleluia
Question #22
A monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant.
B the French nobles began to sing hunting songs together.
C musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
D All answers are correct.
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 song of worship.
B dance.
C stringed instrument.
D secular song form.
Question #25
A monasteries.
B dancing.
C monks and nuns.
D church services.
Question #26
A lived on the lowest level of society.
B All answers are correct.
C performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
D played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
Question #27
A Péronne d’Armentières.
B Beatriz de Dia.
C Frauenlob.
D Hildegard of Bingen.
Question #28
A Hildegard of Bingen.
B the monks at the church of St. Trophime.
C the nuns of Rupertsberg.
D Pope Gregory I.
Question #29
A All answers are correct.
B a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
C abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
D the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
Question #30
A is often used in Gregorian chants.
B All answers are correct.
C may be translated as “praise ye the Lord.”
D is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
Question #31
A like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.
B completely different from any other form of scale.
C different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
D different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five different tones.
Question #32
A condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
B treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
C focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell.
D focused on human life and its accomplishments.
Question #33
A thirteenth
B sixth
C ninth
D fourteenth
Question #34
A the office and the mass.
B the salvation service and the holiness service.
C the monastery and the convent.
D the worship service and the praise service.
Question #35
A All answers are correct.
B reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
C composed all of the Gregorian chants.
D published all of the Gregorian chants.
Question #36
A infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
B stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
C by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
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 All answers are correct.
B retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
C is set to sacred Latin texts.
D was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
Question #39
A contemporary gospel.
B Gregorian chant.
C Trouvère songs.
D estampies.
Question #40
A preferred instrumental music in
B encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
C forbade the use of music in
D wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
C banned entirely.
D used only as a discreet accompaniment.
Question #42
A frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
B added a sacred quality to the mass.
C made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
D bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
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 earlier role in pagan rites.
B association with minstrels and jongleurs.
C sacred quality and background.
D use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
Question #45
A religious worship.
B the concert hall.
C the piano.
D dancing.
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 five
B two
C three
D four
Question #48
A monophonic
B polyphonic
C homophonic
D imitative
Question #49
A shawm
B lute
C sackbut
D regals
Question #50
A 450-1000.
B 1000-1150.
C 1150-1450.
D 450-1450.
