Exam 1

Question 1

Boethius characterized music the human body and soul as

Answer 1

Musica Humana

Question 2

In Ancient Greece only the elite high society would participate in Music Competitions

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Treatise by Martinus Capella puts music in the Quadrivium with Math and Science

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The instrument that is linked to Apollo, God of Light, Learning and the Arts

Answer 4

Lyre

Question 5

Greek Philosopher that believed that music should be part of music education due to the power of Ethos

Answer 5

Aristotle

Question 6

The first known composer was a female

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The Greek Double Reed Instrument linked to Dionysus, God of fertility and wine (and that makes the performer look like a Walrus)

Answer 7

Aulos

Question 8

What is the Roman Name of the Greek Aulos

Answer 8

Tibia

Question 9

Choose the 4-5th Century Church Father that FEARED the Power of Music had over him

Answer 9

St. Augustine

Question 10

The belief that music could alter a person’s behavior is called

Answer 10

Ethos

Question 11

Pythagoras is the Greek Mathematician Responsible for noting the numeral Relationships on Intervals

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The Greek Philosopher that believed that too much music makes one weak and irritable

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

The Harmony of the Spheres is the belief that the Planets in the Solar System create unheard music in their Rotations

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The Bull Lyre is used for SECULAR Activities

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Which Type of Chant includes Iconographic Images of a Pope being Visited by a Dove (God) and Transcribing the Music

Answer 15

Gregorian Chant

Question 16

Diastemic

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intervallic

Question 17

Tetrachord

Answer 17

diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic

Question 18

Ancient Rome Instruments

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Tibia, Tiba, Cornu and Buccina

Question 19

What are the four types of chant?

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Byzantine, Ambrosian (Milan), Gregorian, Old Roman

Question 20

What are neumes?

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Early note heads

Question 21

Tenor means?

Answer 21

to hold

Question 22

Motet

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word; 13th century

Question 23

Polyphony was a part of the

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12-13th century

Question 24

Cantus Firmus

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pre-existing melody

Question 25

What country is the birth of Polyphony?

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France

Question 26

When is the first time we see Time Signature?

Answer 26

14th Century

Question 27

Harmony of the spheres

Answer 27

the unheard music created by the planets and heavenly bodies, from Plato- Modern Astronomy

Question 28

Conjunct

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the tetrachords share a note

Question 29

Disjunct

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the tetrachords are separated by a whole tone

Question 30

Mese

Answer 30

the middle note

Question 31

Proslanbanemenos

Answer 31

extra note at the bottom

Question 32

Synagogues

Answer 32

center for reading and homilies

Question 33

Sacrifice

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Ritual sacrifice of an animal (lamb) accompanied by psalms, such by priests

Question 34

Psalms

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sung poems of praise from the Hebrew Book of Psalms

Question 35

Cantillation

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melodic formulas for sacred text

Question 36

Insturments

Answer 36

trumpets and cymbals

Question 37

Musica Mundana

Answer 37

music of the universe: stars, planets, seasons

Question 38

Music Humana

Answer 38

human body and soul

Question 39

Musica Instrumentalis

Answer 39

instrumental and vocal music, outside the body

Question 40

Who are the church fathers?

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St. Basil, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. John Chrysostom

Question 41

What are some of the Medieval Instruments?

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Vielle (fiddle), Hurdy-gurdy, Psaltery, Transverse flute, Shawm, Medieval Trumpet, Pipe and tabor, Organ

Question 42

Carole

Answer 42

Circle Dance from France (12th-14th Centuries)

Question 43

Estampie

Answer 43

French Dance in triple meter, popular in the 13th-14th centuries

Question 44

What musicians are at Court (Secular)?

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Bards, Jongleur, Minstrel, Troubador, Trouvere, Minnesinger

Question 45

Organum

Answer 45

2 (or more) voices singing different notes

Question 46

Parallel Organum

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voice move in parallel motion, avoid the tritone

Question 47

Mixed/Oblique Organum

Answer 47

avoid the tritone (DRONE)

Question 48

Free Organum

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"note against note"; organal voice is above P4, P5, or P8ve

Question 49

Aquitanian Polyphony

Answer 49

Florid; organal voice is florid 1-3 note for each lower note

Question 50

Notre Dame Polyphony

Answer 50

Longs and Breves, Modal rhythm (Discant)

Question 51

Pure Organum

Answer 51

Organum Duplum

Question 52

Triplum

Answer 52

3 voice

Question 53

Quadruplum

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4 voice

Question 54

Substitute clasulae

Answer 54

sections of organum, in discant style replace old sections to create coherence to an extended passage

Question 55

Hocket

Answer 55

"hiccup" two voices alternate, trade figures, while the other rests

Question 56

Musica Ficta

Answer 56

"feigned music", unwritten accidentals, avoids tritone, at cadences

Question 57

Virelais

Answer 57

A bba A bba A bba A; monophonic

Question 58

Rondeaux

Answer 58

AbaAabAB; polyphonic; 4 voice: triplum with cantus (text), tenor and contratenor

Question 59

Ballades

Answer 59

aabC, polyphonic