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