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- The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning
- 450-1450
- Dynamics in music refers to
- degrees of loudness and softness
- Romanticism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
- 1820-1900
- The Renaissance in music occurred between
- 1450-1600
- Music can be defined as
- an art based on the organization of sounds in time
- Polyphonic texture consists of
- two or more melodies of relatively equal interest performed simultaneously
- Tone color is synonymous with
- timbre
- Homophonic texture consists of
- one main melody accompanied by chords
- Classicism, as a stylistic period in western music, encompassed the years
- 1750-1820
- The texture of a single melodic line without accompaniment is
- monophonic
- The relative highness or lowness of a sound is called
- pitch
- An important woman composer of the Middle Ages was
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Gregorian chant consists of
- melody sung w/o accompaniment
- The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed by
- French nobles called troubadours and trouvères
- The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the
- addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian chant
- Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called
- organum
- Leonin and Perotin are notable because they
- all of the above
- The ars nova, or new art, of the fourteenth century differed from older music in that
- a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern
- An outstanding composer of the ars nova was
- Guillaume de Machaut
- The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was
- the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer
- The Renaissance may be described as an age of
- all of the above
- The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called
- humanism
- The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
- polyphonic
- The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the
- motet
- The Renaissance motet is a
- polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass
- The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as
- the Counter-Reformation
- The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it
- because it used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing
- During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to
- all of the above
- The Renaissance madrigal is a
- piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love
- Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for
- dancing
- Dido and Aeneas, which many consider to be the finest opera ever written to an English text, was composed by
- Henry Purcell
- Handel's Messiah is an example of
- an oratorio
- Sets of dance-inspired instrumental movements are called
- suites
- A large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative biblical text, is called
- oratorio
- An is a play, set to music, sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.
- opera
- The position of the composer during the baroque period was that of
- a high-class servant with few personal rights
- The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the
- tutti
- Terraced dynamics refers to
- the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another
- A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called
- aria
- Sonata form consists of three main sections, exposition, development, and
- recapitulation
- The classical string quartet is a musical composition for
- two violins, viola, and cello
- Symphony may be defined as a(n)
- all of the above
- A _____________ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood, and meant for evening entertainment
- serenade
- The usual order of movements in a classical symphony is
- fast, slow, dance-related, fast
- A brilliant solo section in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity is called
- a cadenza
- The lyrical slow movement of a symphony is most often the
- second
- A classical concerto is a three-movement work for
- instrumental soloist and orchestra
- A typical sequence of movements in a classical concerto is
- fast, slow, fast
- The most important form of classical chamber music is the
- string quartet