Final

Question 0

What replaced isorhythm as chief structural device in large scale vocal works?

Answer 0

cantus firmus

Question 1

Principle genres for sacred vocal music

Answer 1

Mass and motet

Question 2

Head Motif

Answer 2

a thematic idea in multiple voices placed prominently at the beginning of a setion or movement

Question 3

Mass: Missa Se la face ay pale, ca. 1450 (p.66)

How many voices? Tenor lines serves as what?

Answer 3

> 4 voice mass setting

> tenor line from the chanson serves as cantus firmus

Question 4

missa se la face ay pale was first mass based on what? tenor was no longer what?

Answer 4

> first mass setting based on secular work

> first mass setting in which tenor is not lowest voice

Question 5

Cyclic mass

Answer 5

cycle of all movements of the mass

Question 6

Mass ordinary integrated by what?

Answer 6

cantus firums

Question 7

Chanson: se la face ay pale - how many voices? what kind of work?

Answer 7

3 voice polyphonic secular vocal work

Question 8

major composers of The Mass (3)

Answer 8

Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin

Question 9

rhythmic device of The Mass?

Answer 9

mesuration canons

Question 10

what begins to replace cantus firmus in The Mass?

Answer 10

imitation

Question 11

Motet is

Answer 11

prayer text set to music

Question 12

Motet is written to fulfill one of three principles:

Answer 12

1. liturgical
2. devotional
3. occassional

Question 13

Chanson moved from what texture to what texture?

Answer 13

layered to homogenous

Question 14

Frottola poetry tended to be what?

Answer 14

lighthearted and sarcastic

Question 15

Frottola texts included…

Answer 15

freely structured poems

Question 16

Portative organ

Answer 16

portable and smaller

Question 17

positive organ

Answer 17

larger than portative

Question 18

Renaissance harpsichord is what kind of keyboard

Answer 18

single keyboard

Question 19

Virginal

Answer 19

single set of strings

Question 20

Spinet

Answer 20

single keyboard

Question 21

Recorders evolved from what

Answer 21

panpipe instrument

Question 22

What are the two principle doulbe-reed instruments?

Answer 22

shawm and crumhorn

Question 23

Brass instruments limited to what kind of harmonics?

Answer 23

natural

Question 24

Percussion instruments included

Answer 24

drums, cymbals, tambourines, triangles and wooden xylophones

Question 25

Most common plucked string instrument

Answer 25

lute

Question 26

viol and violin families emerged in what century

Answer 26

15th

Question 27

Viols distinguished from violins by 4 characteristics

Answer 27

sloped shoulders, flat backs, fretted fingerboards and 6 strings

Question 28

The parisian chanson became a new genre in what year?

Answer 28

1520

Question 29

parisian chanson was lighter and more what?

Answer 29

chordally oriented

Question 30

parisian chanson was dominated by what kind of sonorities? homorhythmic or isorhythmic

Answer 30

vertical, homorhythmic

Question 31

Italian madrigal became genre in what year? What country?

Answer 31

1530; Italy

Question 32

Italian madrigal is for how many voices

Answer 32

3 or more

Question 33

italian madrigal uses mostly sacred or secular text

Answer 33

secular

Question 34

is the italian madrigal strophic or through-composed?

Answer 34

through-composed?

Question 35

two most prominent variety of secular song in Germany are

Answer 35

lied and tenorlied

Question 36

secular song in Germany sung by who?

Answer 36

meistersinger guilds

Question 37

principle genre of spanish song in renaissance

Answer 37

villancico

Question 38

secular song in spain poetic form equivalent to what

Answer 38

french virelai

Question 39

music transalpina means what, published when?

Answer 39

Music from Across the Alps, 1588

Question 40

vernacular

Answer 40

language of country rather than Latin

Question 41

chorales

Answer 41

congregational singing of hymns

Question 42

In England, composers began writing motets in what language

Answer 42

englsih

Question 43

what are the two forms of anthems?

Answer 43

full and verse

Question 44

Full anthem

Answer 44

chorus throughout

Question 45

verse anthem

Answer 45

alternates chorus with passages for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment

Question 46

in music of the counter-reformation, the council declared what?

Answer 46

sacred music was to serve the text and text should be clear to listeners

Question 47

social dance

Answer 47

a pattern of repeated steps

Question 48

pavane

Answer 48

slow, courtly dance in duple meter

Question 49

passamezzo

Answer 49

similar to pavane, lighter step

Question 50

bouree

Answer 50

fast dance in duple meter

Question 51

saltarello

Answer 51

fast dance, often follows a slower one

Question 52

galliarde

Answer 52

more vigorous version of saltarello; large leaps by dancers

Question 53

volta

Answer 53

fast turning dance; compound duple meter

Question 54

branle

Answer 54

line dance in duple meter

Question 55

with the baroque era came increasing importance in what investigation

Answer 55

scientific investigation

Question 56

culminaton of what in baroque era?

Answer 56

royal despotism

Question 57

What was prized in all the arts? begins with v

Answer 57

virtuosity

Question 58

What's new? (musical context) (3)

Answer 58

- importance of instrumental music - opera - functional tonality

Question 59

Experimentation (musical context) 3

Answer 59

- idea that music could not physically move listener - full realization of opera - composers experimented with creating impressive effects in instrumental music

Question 60

expanding roles for music (2)

Answer 60

- used for important tool for government | - new extravagant styles for religious services