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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A love.
B dancing.
C religion.
D the Crusades.
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 All answers are correct.
B read musical notation.
C be skilled in dance.
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 complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
B deliberations of the Council of Trent.
C protests of Martin Luther.
D music of Palestrina.
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 work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
D polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
Question #8
A The merchant’s living room
B The king’s court
C The church
D The castle
Question #9
A Spain.
B Italy.
C Germany.
D Flanders.
Question #10
A Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
B The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic.
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 Flanders.
B Spain.
C England.
D Scandinavia.
Question #12
A 1000 and 1150.
B 1450 and 1600.
C 1150 and 1450.
D 1600 and 1750.
Question #13
A professors in universities.
B wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
C monks in monasteries.
D knights in castles.
Question #14
A Credo
B Gloria
C Kyrie
D Ave Maria
Question #15
A Guillaume de Machaut.
B Perotin.
C Leonin.
D Pope Gregory I.
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 Leonin and Perotin.
B Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
C Machaut and Josquin.
D All answers are correct.
Question #18
A indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
B All answers are correct.
C are the first important composers known by name.
D were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
Question #19
A having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
B placing new melodic lines against known chants.
C harmonizing melodies with chords.
D adding orchestral instruments to church music.
Question #20
A London.
B Rome.
C Paris.
D Reims.
Question #21
A Ostinato
B Alleluia
C Organum
D Jongleurs
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 All answers are correct.
D musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
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 stringed instrument.
B song of worship.
C secular song form.
D dance.
Question #25
A church services.
B monks and nuns.
C dancing.
D monasteries.
Question #26
A lived on the lowest level of society.
B performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
C played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
D All answers are correct.
Question #27
A Beatriz de Dia.
B Frauenlob.
C Péronne d’Armentières.
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 the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
B a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
C All answers are correct.
D abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
Question #30
A may be translated as “praise ye the Lord.”
B All answers are correct.
C is often used in Gregorian chants.
D is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
Question #31
A different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five different tones.
B different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
C like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.
D completely different from any other form of scale.
Question #32
A focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell.
B focused on human life and its accomplishments.
C treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
D condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
Question #33
A ninth
B fourteenth
C thirteenth
D sixth
Question #34
A the salvation service and the holiness service.
B the worship service and the praise service.
C the office and the mass.
D the monastery and the convent.
Question #35
A published all of the Gregorian chants.
B composed all of the Gregorian chants.
C All answers are correct.
D reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
Question #36
A infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
B by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
C stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
D only by perfect intervals.
Question #37
A It conveys a calm, otherworldly quality.
B It is usually polyphonic in texture.
C Its rhythm is flexible, without meter.
D The melodies tend to move by step within a narrow range of pitches.
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 Trouvère songs.
B estampies.
C contemporary gospel.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A forbade the use of music in
B preferred instrumental music in
C encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
D wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
Question #41
A performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
B banned entirely.
C used only as a discreet accompaniment.
D used only with wind instruments.
Question #42
A added a sacred quality to the mass.
B bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
C made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
D frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
Question #43
A wooden instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece.
B silly, humorous dance in duple meter.
C stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
D lively dance in triple meter.
Question #44
A use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
B sacred quality and background.
C association with minstrels and jongleurs.
D earlier role in pagan rites.
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 A wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
D Secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music.
Question #47
A three
B five
C two
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 450-1000.
B 1000-1150.
C 450-1450.
D 1150-1450.
