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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A religion.
B dancing.
C love.
D the Crusades.
Question #2
A polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
B piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
C polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text.
D dancelike song for several solo voices.
Question #3
A be skilled in dance.
B read musical notation.
C play a musical instrument.
D All answers are correct.
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 deliberations of the Council of Trent.
B protests of Martin Luther.
C complaints of Desiderius Erasmus.
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 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 king’s court
B The castle
C The merchant’s living room
D The church
Question #9
A Spain.
B Germany.
C Italy.
D Flanders.
Question #10
A The Renaissance period is sometimes called “the golden age” of a cappella choral music.
B Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
C Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance.
D The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic.
Question #11
A Scandinavia.
B England.
C Flanders.
D Spain.
Question #12
A 1600 and 1750.
B 1150 and 1450.
C 1000 and 1150.
D 1450 and 1600.
Question #13
A professors in universities.
B wandering minstrels or jongleurs.
C monks in monasteries.
D knights in castles.
Question #14
A Credo
B Kyrie
C Ave Maria
D Gloria
Question #15
A Perotin.
B Leonin.
C Pope Gregory I.
D Guillaume de Machaut.
Question #16
A Italian and French music of the fourteenth century.
B paintings from the new world.
C the new art of baroque painters.
D German music of the sixteenth century.
Question #17
A Leonin and Perotin.
B All answers are correct.
C Pope Gregory and Chastelain de Couci.
D Machaut and Josquin.
Question #18
A were the leaders of the school of Notre Dame.
B are the first important composers known by name.
C indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music.
D All answers are correct.
Question #19
A adding orchestral instruments to church music.
B harmonizing melodies with chords.
C placing new melodic lines against known chants.
D having some singers embellish the sermon during church services.
Question #20
A Paris.
B London.
C Reims.
D Rome.
Question #21
A Organum
B Ostinato
C Jongleurs
D Alleluia
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 focused on human life and its accomplishments.
B The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
C The humanists were captivated by the pagan cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.
D The Madonna was treated as a beautiful young woman.
Question #24
A stringed instrument.
B secular song form.
C song of worship.
D dance.
Question #25
A church services.
B monasteries.
C monks and nuns.
D dancing.
Question #26
A played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes.
B lived on the lowest level of society.
C performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
D All answers are correct.
Question #27
A Beatriz de Dia.
B Péronne d’Armentières.
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 the first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived.
B All answers are correct.
C abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg.
D a visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs.
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 different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
B different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five 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 treated the Madonna as a childlike unearthly creature.
B focused on human life and its accomplishments.
C focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell.
D condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity.
Question #33
A sixth
B fourteenth
C thirteenth
D ninth
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 reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590 to 604.
B composed all of the Gregorian chants.
C published all of the Gregorian chants.
D All answers are correct.
Question #36
A by leaps over a wide range of pitches.
B stepwise within a narrow range of pitches.
C only by perfect intervals.
D infrequently, remaining on a single tone for long stretches.
Question #37
A It is usually polyphonic in texture.
B The melodies tend to move by step within a narrow range of pitches.
C Its rhythm is flexible, without meter.
D It conveys a calm, otherworldly quality.
Question #38
A retained some elements of the Jewish synagogue of the first centuries after Christ.
B is set to sacred Latin texts.
C was the official music of the Roman Catholic church for more than 1,000 years.
D All answers are correct.
Question #39
A estampies.
B Trouvère songs.
C contemporary gospel.
D Gregorian chant.
Question #40
A encouraged the use of music as a highlight of
B wanted music only as a discreet accompaniment to
C forbade the use of music in
D preferred instrumental music in
Question #41
A used only with wind instruments.
B used only as a discreet accompaniment.
C banned entirely.
D performed by as many musical instruments as possible.
Question #42
A made it possible for more musicians to be employed.
B added a sacred quality to the mass.
C frustrated the nobles in their attempts to control the church.
D bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship.
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 use in early Jewish religious ceremonies.
B earlier role in pagan rites.
C sacred quality and background.
D association with minstrels and jongleurs.
Question #45
A the concert hall.
B the piano.
C religious worship.
D dancing.
Question #46
A Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
B Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for church use.
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 two
B four
C five
D three
Question #48
A homophonic
B imitative
C monophonic
D polyphonic
Question #49
A shawm
B sackbut
C lute
D regals
Question #50
A 450-1450.
B 1000-1150.
C 450-1000.
D 1150-1450.
