MUSIC N ARTS

Question 1

The official music of the Catholic Church. Also named as plainsong or plainchant.

Answer 1

Gregorian Chant

Question 2

Early church polyphony, consists of Gregorian chant and one or more added musical.

Answer 2

Organum

Question 3

 The composers usually add more than one new voice above a plainchant making it three and four-voice compositions.
 The most important form of the early polyphonic music.
 Derives from the French word ‘mot’ referring the words that were added to the vocal lines.

Answer 3

Motet

Question 4

 Roman Catholic Church’s central and leading worship service.
 Composers writing polyphony for the mass had only one or two sections of what is called the ‘Proper of the Mass’

Answer 4

Mass

Question 5

 Came from the word ‘trobar’ meaning “to compose”, “to discuss”, or “to find”.
 They performed chivalry and courtly romantic music, were the creators of words and melodies

Answer 5

Troubadours

Question 6

 Most of their were songs about love, crusades, dance songs, and spinning songs.
 The notation of their melodies does not show rhythm.

Answer 6

Trouveres

Question 7

 Came from the Italian term ‘rinascimento’ which means “rebirth”.
 started in Florence from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
 Also known as the period of the “Golden Age of Polyphony”.

Answer 7

Renaissance

Question 8

The simultaneous combination of sounds in music.

Answer 8

Polyphony

Question 9

• was divided between purely vocal works and those singers were supported by instruments.
   The era also saw a growth in solo instrumental music.

Answer 9

Secular Music

Question 10

Topics used in the songs are about love, political themes, as well as scenes and incidents of city and country life.

Answer 10

Madrigal

Question 11

 Was a theorist, editor, and organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
 A famous Renaissance composer of secular music in Elizabethan England.
 Foremost member of the English Madrigal School.

Answer 11

Thomas Morley

Question 12

_______ literally means “big group”.

Answer 12

Concerto Grosso

Question 13

 It evolved into a performing group based on the instruments of the violin section.
 The orchestra was small, consisting of around thirty players.
 The composition of the orchestra was flexible and can vary from piece to piece.

Answer 13

Baroque Orchestra

Question 14

• meaning “to flee”.

 A contrapuntal piece that can be used for voices, group of instruments, or single keyboard instruments.

Answer 14

Fugue

Question 15

 Composition for keyboard instruments.

 Usually virtuostic, involving fast or difficult playing by the performer.

Answer 15

Toccata

Question 16

 Came from the word given by Bach to pieces of small dimensions written in rather loose fugal imitation.

Answer 16

Oratorio

Question 17

 Derived from the Italian word ‘cantare’ means “to sing”.

 It is written for a small number of performers.

Answer 17

Cantata

Question 18

 Primary keyboard instruments of the Baroque period were the organ and the harpsicord

Answer 18

Baroque Keyboard Music

Question 19

Ancient instrument made from a goat or sheep skin, used by the poorest people.

Answer 19

Bagpipe

Question 20

recorder-like woodwind musical instrument, one of the favorite musical instrument of the minstrels to use when traveling.

Answer 20

Flute

Question 21

bowed or plucked string placed under the chin of the player.

Answer 21

Fiddle

Question 22

pear-shaped plucked string instrument with bent neck and a fretted fingerboard.

Answer 22

Lute

Question 23

 Assemblage of giant stones in southern England.

 It came from ‘henge’ the Anglo-Saxon word for “hanging which refers to the horizontal stones in the monument.

Answer 23

Stonehenge

Question 24

 Circle standing stones.

 Brythonic-rooted word ____ means “bent” or “curved”, while ___ means “slab” or “flat stones”.

Answer 24

Cromlech

Question 25

 Are a system of writing composed entirely by pictures.

Answer 25

Hieroglyphics

Question 26

- portrait sculpture of Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre, around 2575 BCE. - is a mythical creature with the head of a human, a falcon, a cat, or a sheep and the body of a lion with the wings of a falcon

Answer 26

Sphinx

Question 27

 Used to house a massive gold statue of Athena by Phidias. |  Was designed by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates. The style to this structure is called Classical.

Answer 27

Pathenon

Question 28

 The culture flourished from about 1200 BCE to about 323 BCE.  This would come to influence the Western world longer than more profoundly by other.

Answer 28

Ancient Greek Art

Question 29

 Derived from Latin word ‘relevo’ meaning “to raise” is a technique in sculpting wherein the elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

Answer 29

Relief

Question 30

 From the Latin word ‘navis’ meaning “ship” , is the main body of the central aisle of a church.

Answer 30

Nave

Question 31

 A grotesque carving of a human or an animal. |  Serves as a water spout attached on a wall.

Answer 31

Gargoyle

Question 32

 Term used to describe the medieval architectural style of Western Europe from the early twelfth until the sixteenth century.

Answer 32

Gothic

Question 33

 By eleventh century, the character of the medieval life had begun to change. The pagans who settled all over Europe had adopted Christianity.  This style is called __________ because Roman styles and building techniques were widely assimilated.

Answer 33

Romanesque Art