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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A love.
B dancing.
C the Crusades.
D religion.
Question #2
A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text.
B dancelike song for several solo voices.
C polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
D piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
Question #3
A play a musical instrument.
B read musical notation.
C All answers are correct.
D be skilled in dance.
Question #4
A exclusively in the English language.
B with proper pronunciation and tone quality.
C away from the actual religious services.
D with the members of the congregation.
Question #5
A complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
B deliberations of the Council of Trent.
C music of Palestrina.
D protests of Martin Luther.
Question #7
A polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
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 piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
Question #8
A The merchant’s living room
B The king’s court
C The castle
D The church
Question #9
A Flanders.
B Spain.
C Italy.
D Germany.
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 Flanders.
B England.
C Spain.
D Scandinavia.
Question #12
A 1150 and 1450.
B 1000 and 1150.
C 1600 and 1750.
D 1450 and 1600.
Question #13
A knights in castles.
B professors in universities.
C wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
D monks in monasteries.
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 the new art of baroque painters.
B German music of the sixteenth century.
C Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
D paintings from the new world.
Question #17
A All answers are correct.
B Machaut and Josquin.
C Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
D Leonin and Perotin.
Question #18
A are the first important composers known by name.
B All answers are correct.
C were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
D indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
Question #19
A having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
B placing new melodic lines against known chants.
C adding orchestral instruments to church music.
D harmonizing melodies with chords.
Question #20
A Paris.
B Rome.
C London.
D Reims.
Question #21
A Jongleurs
B Organum
C Alleluia
D Ostinato
Question #22
A All answers are correct.
B musicians composed new music to accompany dancing.
C the French nobles began to sing hunting songs together.
D monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian chant.
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 dance.
B stringed instrument.
C secular song form.
D song of worship.
Question #25
A monks and nuns.
B church services.
C monasteries.
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 Frauenlob.
B Hildegard of Bingen.
C Beatriz de Dia.
D Péronne d’Armentières.
Question #28
A Pope Gregory I.
B Hildegard of Bingen.
C the monks at the church of St. Trophime.
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 is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah.
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 treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
D condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
Question #33
A fourteenth
B ninth
C sixth
D thirteenth
Question #34
A the salvation service and the holiness service.
B the monastery and the convent.
C the worship service and the praise service.
D the office and the mass.
Question #35
A All answers are correct.
B published all of the Gregorian chants.
C composed all of the Gregorian chants.
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 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 All answers are correct.
B was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
C retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
D is set to sacred Latin texts.
Question #39
A contemporary gospel.
B estampies.
C Trouvère songs.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A preferred instrumental music in
B wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
C forbade the use of music in
D encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
C used only as a discreet accompaniment.
D banned entirely.
Question #42
A made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
B bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
C added a sacred quality to the mass.
D frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
Question #43
A wooden instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece.
B stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane.
C lively dance in triple meter.
D silly, humorous dance in duple meter.
Question #44
A association with minstrels and jongleurs.
B use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
C sacred quality and background.
D earlier role in pagan rites.
Question #45
A the concert hall.
B the piano.
C dancing.
D religious worship.
Question #46
A Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
B A wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
C Secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music.
D Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.
Question #47
A five
B four
C three
D two
Question #48
A polyphonic
B imitative
C monophonic
D homophonic
Question #49
A lute
B sackbut
C regals
D shawm
Question #50
A 450-1450.
B 450-1000.
C 1000-1150.
D 1150-1450.
