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The rhythm of Behold Spring falls into consistent units of how many beats?

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3

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Hildegard’s play of virtues is

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A dramatized allegory of good & evil

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What is the meter of Landini’s “Behold Spring”

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Triple

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A 12th Century cleric name Perotin, who worked @ the Cathedral of Notre Dame, wrote long & detailed works w/the first harmonies, known as

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organum

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In which Cathedral did Josquin spend several years working?

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St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome

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From where did Awake, a voice Calls to us derive its name & Primary melody

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A choral tune

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Which is the following ideas does the text of “The Cricket” explore?

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Love Songs

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Josquin’s music makes the meaning of a text

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more vivid & memorable

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What instrument are included in the performance of Moorish Dance

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Woodwinds, brass. & percussion

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The first & final movements of Bach’s cantata 140 are unified by using a common

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Chorale Melody

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The meter in dance music correspond to the pattern of

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Dance steps

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The Renaissance was an age of growing confidence in

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The powers of human reason & individuality

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The “Hallelujah” chorus features which textures

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Monophony, Homophony, Polyphony

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Which movement represents the Catholic Church’s response to Protestantism

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The Counter-Reformation

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What did the council of Trent seek to remove from musical settings of the mass

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Secular musical influences

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Composers like JaCopo de Bologna, Bernart de Ventadom, & Oswald Von Wolkenstein share w/Machaut a Strong interest in

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Courtly Love

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By the end of her life Barbara Strozzi had published ___ volumes of music

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8

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In Dido & Aeneas, Belinda & Dido converse in a vocal style that is partway between speech & singing

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Recitative

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Monophony occurs when

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all instruments play the same notes together in unisom

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which of the following is a Baroque Composer who wrote in the Concerto genre

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Arcangello Corelli

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Which timbres are heard in the solo sections for the finale of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertto #2

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trumpet & recorder

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In which city was Bach employed

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Leipzig

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Purcell moves the plot of Dido & Aeneas forward through a series of brief, self contained units known as

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numbers

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A genre of chamber music cultivated w/special intensity by Baroque composers was the

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sonata

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The English Madrigal
was directly indepted to the Italian Madrigal
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The form of "The Talking Sheep" consists of the repitition of how many melodic units
2
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Which musical genres was Bach known to compose
Orchestral works & cantatas
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Landini is belived to have written 150 ____ songs which represent about 1/3 of all Italian music
Secular
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"Since Robin Hood" is a
Madrigal
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Josquin's "The Cricket" uses what kind of form
Ternary
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An Anthem is an example of
a Capella Choral music
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What type of musical deice is used to graphically set words like "skip" & "Drip"
word painting
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which formal device is used by Bach in the 1st movement of Cantata 140
ritornello principal
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Vivaldi was known as the
Red Priest
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A musical setting in which each syllable receives its own note
syllabic
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The intense spirituality of The Renaissance
gave rise to some of the most moving sacred music ever
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Type of chant involves a chorus responding to a solo singer
Responsorial
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In the 2nd section of "Since Robin Hood" which meter does the music shift to in order to accomodate the trochaic meter of the poetry
Triple
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Handel wrote Italian operas that used ____ area whose form means "from the top"
da capo
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How many independent voices in "Since Robin Hood"
3
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Josqin des Prez was a
International Celebrity in his time
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Which Sons of J.S. Brach were composers
Johann Christian Bach & Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
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William Byrd was a
Catholic who wrote Protestant music for the English Monarch
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Which portion of the Alleulia text remains the same through out the year
Alleulia
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The effect of the drone bass is like what medieval Instrument
bagpipe
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What is the form of "No More than one Man Could Count the Stars"
AAB
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Which of the following is a character in Hildegard's play of Virtues
Humility
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What was the topic of satire & jest surrounding Barbara Strozzi
Her Chastity
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Claudio Monteverdi's bridged the _____ & Baroque Era
Renaissance
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Because of the size, power, & timbral variety, the organ is sometimes called the
King of Instruments
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Where was the drum part for "He who Gladly Serves" notated
nowhere
52
In addition composing music Hildegard
experienced visions & directed the life of a thriving convent
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In Baroque art & music, artists tried to express a single emotion, known as
affect
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Music was already the _____ in the middle ages, long before Shakespeare coined the phrase
Food of Love
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During the Baroque era, all concertos were built around the
ritornello principal
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The difference between Bach's original Fugue in G minor & Leopold Stokowki's arrangement of the same place for orchestra is one of
timbre
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William Byrd worked for Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was a
protestant
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What is a name for a brief pattern in the bass line that is repeated throughout the enter number
ostinato
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The recitative section of "He Dwelleth in Heaven" is accompanied only by
basso Continuo
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Which assembly was responsible for crafting the Catholic Church's reaction to the Protestant Reformation
The Council of Trent
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During the Baroque Era
Churches spent large sums of money on lavish decorations & powerful organs
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In a fugue, the passages were the main subject (the main theme) is absent are called
episodes
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Baroque composers wrote music for services of different faiths
Catholic, Lutheran & Angelican
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Beethoven's Wellington's Victory & Berlioz's fantastique are both examples of
program music
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William Byrd's "Sing Joyfully" is notable for its
word painting
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G F Handel
composed opera & Oratorio
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From where does Palestrina's name come
the town near Rome where he was born
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The text for Alleluia of the feast of Corpus Christi is drawn from the
Gospel of John
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Which of the following is a physiological effect of plainchant
lower blood pressure
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In " No more than One Man Could Count the Stars" cadences are identified in the music by a
point of arrival
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The chorale melody of "Awake, a voice Calls to us" appears in which sections of the finale of Bach's Cantata 140
the chorale section
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Which is the best way to describe the recitative style of "He that Dwelleth in Heaven
Choral
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Who sings the part of the "Caro Mea Alleluia that includes biblical verses
soloist
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late 6th century Venetian Composer wrote a large amount of Brass Music
Giovanni Gabrielli
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Monteverdi spent the last 3 decades of his life working @
St Mark's Basilica in Venice
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The more lyrical numbers in opera that convey deeper feelings are called
arias
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The Renaissance maybe described as
an age of the "rebirth" of arts & sciences from antiquity
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Female composer of the Middle Ages
Hildegard of Bingen
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Bach had ___ children
20
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Although there is a choir, the texture of the "Caro Mea" is monophonic because they sing in
unison
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How many Structural cadences occur in "No More than one Man could Count the Stars"
6
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In Hildegard's Play of Virtues, Satan
shouts his lines
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How many soloists are in a Baroque number
no fixed number
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Byrd creates a sectional from in "Sing Joyfully" by giving each line of the text its own
melodic idea
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Counter point is an ____ that is still taught in almost exactly the same manner as it was in the Renaissance
demanding art
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Which genre of music did Bach compose for the weekly Lutheran service
Cantata
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The Middle Ages was known as the age of
Courtly Love
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The 2 Subfamlies of reed instruments are
double and single
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In Baroque opera the group of instruments that always accompanies a singer is
basso continuo
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In "no More than One Man Could Count the Stars" the section B is ____ than the A section
longer
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The longest pipes of an organ can be up to ___ feet high to produce the lowest notes
16
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Which texture does Handel use in "Hallelujah" chorus
Monophony
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The Drone Bass beneath a melody is what texture
homophony
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The texture of Gregorian Chant is
monophonic
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What is the name for the equal-voice texture that results from Renaissance counter point
polyphony
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Texture of "No more than One Man Could Count the Stars"
Polyphonic
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musical texture during Orpheus's recitative in "Tu Se morta"
homophonic
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What is the word for a poem's basic rhythmic unit
meter
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Which timbres are used to emphasize the regal nature of the "king of King's text in the "hallelujah" chorus
Trumpet & Timpani
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In William Byrd's "Sing Joyfully," each voice is differentiated by its
range
101
What does an elided cadence omit?
textual reputition

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