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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 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.
Question #3
A read musical notation.
B be skilled in dance.
C play a musical instrument.
D All answers are correct.
Question #4
A exclusively in the English language.
B with the members of the congregation.
C with proper pronunciation and tone quality.
D away from the actual religious services.
Question #5
A deliberations of the Council of Trent.
B complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
C music of Palestrina.
D protests of Martin Luther.
Question #7
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
B polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
C dancelike song for several solo voices.
D polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
Question #8
A The king’s court
B The merchant’s living room
C The church
D The castle
Question #9
A Flanders.
B Spain.
C Germany.
D Italy.
Question #10
A The Renaissance period is sometimes called “the golden age” of a cappella choral music.
B Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.
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 England.
B Scandinavia.
C Spain.
D Flanders.
Question #12
A 1150 and 1450.
B 1000 and 1150.
C 1600 and 1750.
D 1450 and 1600.
Question #13
A monks in monasteries.
B knights in castles.
C professors in universities.
D wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
Question #14
A Credo
B Kyrie
C Gloria
D Ave Maria
Question #15
A Perotin.
B Pope Gregory I.
C Leonin.
D Guillaume de Machaut.
Question #16
A Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
B paintings from the new world.
C German music of the sixteenth century.
D the new art of baroque painters.
Question #17
A Machaut and Josquin.
B All answers are correct.
C Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
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 harmonizing melodies with chords.
B having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
C placing new melodic lines against known chants.
D adding orchestral instruments to church music.
Question #20
A Reims.
B Paris.
C London.
D Rome.
Question #21
A Jongleurs
B Alleluia
C Ostinato
D Organum
Question #22
A All answers are correct.
B monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant.
C musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
D the French nobles began to sing hunting songs together.
Question #23
A The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
B The Madonna was treated as a beautiful young woman.
C The humanists were captivated by the pagan cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.
D The humanists focused on human life and its accomplishments.
Question #24
A stringed instrument.
B secular song form.
C dance.
D song of worship.
Question #25
A church services.
B monasteries.
C monks and nuns.
D dancing.
Question #26
A performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
B played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
C All answers are correct.
D lived on the lowest level of society.
Question #27
A Péronne d’Armentières.
B Beatriz de Dia.
C Frauenlob.
D Hildegard of Bingen.
Question #28
A the monks at the church of St. Trophime.
B Hildegard of Bingen.
C Pope Gregory I.
D the nuns of Rupertsberg.
Question #29
A All answers are correct.
B the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
C abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
D a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
Question #30
A may be translated as “praise ye the Lord.”
B is often used in Gregorian chants.
C All answers are correct.
D is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
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 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 thirteenth
C ninth
D fourteenth
Question #34
A the monastery and the convent.
B the worship service and the praise service.
C the office and the mass.
D the salvation service and the holiness service.
Question #35
A All answers are correct.
B reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
C published all of the Gregorian chants.
D composed all of the Gregorian chants.
Question #36
A stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
B infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
C only by perfect intervals.
D by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
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 is set to sacred Latin texts.
C retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
D was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
Question #39
A contemporary gospel.
B Trouvère songs.
C estampies.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A forbade the use of music in
B encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
C wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
D preferred instrumental music in
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B banned entirely.
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 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 silly, humorous dance in duple meter.
B stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
C wooden instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece.
D lively dance in triple meter.
Question #44
A sacred quality and background.
B association with minstrels and jongleurs.
C earlier role in pagan rites.
D use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
Question #45
A dancing.
B religious worship.
C the concert hall.
D the piano.
Question #46
A A wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
B Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
C Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.
D Secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music.
Question #47
A five
B three
C four
D two
Question #48
A polyphonic
B homophonic
C monophonic
D imitative
Question #49
A regals
B lute
C shawm
D sackbut
Question #50
A 1000-1150.
B 450-1450.
C 450-1000.
D 1150-1450.
