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1
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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly _____________?

A

Polyphonic

2
Q

A leading english composer of lute songs was ____________?

A

John dowland

3
Q

Most of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ____________?

A

Dancing

4
Q

The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as_____________?

A

The Counter Reformation

5
Q

The Renaissance in music occurred between __________ and ___________.

A

1450 1600

6
Q

Gregorian chant consists of ____________?

A

Melody sung without accompanied

7
Q

The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were ___________?

A

on the lowest social level

8
Q

Hildegard of Bingen was ___________?

A

All answers are correct

9
Q

True or False? The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were accordingly ranked on a high social level.

A

False

10
Q

A cappella refers to ________?

A

unaccompanied choral music

11
Q

Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then ___________.

A

Flanders

12
Q

What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from __________?

A

The pictures and descriptions of the day

13
Q

Italian and French music of the fourteenth century is called __________.

A

Ars Nova

14
Q

The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.

A

Lute

15
Q

The Renaissance may be described as an age of __________.

A

All answers are correct

16
Q

The church frowned on instruments because of their__________?

A

Earlier role in pagan rights

17
Q

The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it _________?

A

used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing.

18
Q

Secular music in the fourteenth century _____________.

A

All answers are correct

19
Q

The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ___________ to __________.

A

450 to 1450

20
Q

____________ is not a part of the Renaissance mass.

A

Alleluia

21
Q

A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the ___________.

A

early 14th century

22
Q

The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that

___________.

A

a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern.

23
Q

During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to ____________.

A

All answers are correct

24
Q

the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were __________.

A

The Church Modes

25
Q

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

A

The church

26
Q

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during ___________.

A

The twelfth and thirteenth century

27
Q

The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the ____________.

A

Motet

28
Q

An estampie is a medieval ___________.

A

Dance

29
Q

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who was _____________.

A

credited by medieval legend

30
Q

A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the__________.

A

Lute

31
Q

Church officials expected monks to sing with ___________ and ____________.

A

Proper pronunciation and tone quality

32
Q

Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ____________.

A

Michael Praetorius.

33
Q

A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by ____________.

A

Monks in monasteries

34
Q

What bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship?

A

Organs

35
Q

______________ is a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.

A

The Renaissance madrigal

36
Q

An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the ______________.

A

deliberations of the Council of Trent.

37
Q

The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century.

A

ninth

38
Q

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were __________.

A

Priest

39
Q

The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with __________.

A

All answers are correct

40
Q

Guillaume de Machaut was a ______________ as well as a musician.

A

All answers are correct

41
Q

We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that ___________ were used.

A

Instruments

42
Q

The intellectual movement called ____________ focused on human life and its accomplishments.

A

Humanism

43
Q

Gregorian chant is ____________.

A

Monophonic in texture

44
Q

The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was _________.

A

The mass

45
Q

Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of who?

A

Christopher Columbus

46
Q

Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called _____________.

A

The organum

47
Q

______________ is not a part of the mass ordinary.

A

Ave Maria

48
Q

Most medieval music was _____________.

A

Vocal

49
Q

True or false? The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.

A

False

50
Q

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages

A

All answers are correct