Part III
1. The intellectual movement called humanism ______.
A. condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity
2. Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?
A. The Virgin Mary was treated as a beautiful young woman.
3. The Renaissance may be described as an age of ______.
A. curiosity and individualism
4. The Renaissance in music occurred between ______.
A. 1000 and 1150
5. Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?
D. Musical activity gradually shifted from the church to the court.
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Learning Objective: Summarize the era known as the Renaissance
Topic: Renaissance music
Feedback: During the Renaissance, the power of the Church declined and royal courts became important patrons of the arts.
Aristocrats and the upper middle class also grew in importance and education became a valued status symbol. Music, especially,
was considered a necessary part of a well-rounded education.
6. Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then
______.
A. England
7. Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?
D. Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific poetic images.
8. The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was ______.
A. Flanders
9. The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ______.
A. monophonic
10. Why does Renaissance music sound fuller than medieval music?
A. Composers considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing one melody above another.
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B. The bass register is used for the first time.
C. The typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest.
D. All answers are correct.
11. To what does a cappella refer?
D. Any form of music appropriate for church use
12. Why are Renaissance melodies usually easy to sing?
A. There is a sharply defined beat.
13. The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the ______.
D. cantata
14. What is the Renaissance motet?
A. A polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections
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15. Which of the following is not a part of the Renaissance mass?
A. Agnus Dei
16. Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in ______.
D. the Netherlands
17. Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of ______.
D. Hildegard of Bingen
18. Which of the following statements is not true?
D. Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . Virgo serena uses polyphonic imitation, a technique typical of the period.
19. Palestrina’s career centered in ______.
A. the Netherlands
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D. Rome
20. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s ______.
D. All answers are correct.
21. The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as
______.
D. the Inquisition
22. An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the ______.
A. protests of Martin Luther
23. Why did the Council of Trent attack the church music of the Renaissance?
A. It was tiresomely monophonic.
24. Which statement is true about Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass?
A. Palestrina was a singer in the papal choir during Pope Marcellus’s reign.
25. The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in ______.
26. During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to ______.
A. read musical notation
27. The madrigal anthology The Triumphes of Oriana was written in honor of ______.
A. Queen Anne
28. Which of the following composers is not an important madrigalist?
A. Thomas Morley
29. What is the Renaissance madrigal?
D. A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text
30. The development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of ______.
A. the Spanish armada
31. Which of the following describes a difference between English and Italian madrigals?
A. More complex melodies
32. Thomas Weelkes’s As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its _______.
D. monophonic texture
33. Besides the madrigal, the ________ was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance.
A. estampie
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Feedback: In addition to the madrigal, the lute song was another popular type of vocal music in the Renaissance. The estampie
was popular in the Middle Ages. The motet was sacred music and the galliard was an instrumental dance piece.
34. The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.
A. shawm
35. The lute song was widely cultivated in England from ______.
A. the late 1570s to the 1590s
36. Lute songs are mostly __________ in texture.
A. monophonic
37. A leading English composer of lute songs was ______.
D. Paul Hillier
38. The expression of ________, as heard in John Dowland’s Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of English literature and
music in the time of William Shakespeare.
A. bliss
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Topic: John Dowland
Topic: Lute song
Feedback: Dowland’s Flow My Tears is full of melancholy, a prominent emotional feature of Elizabethan English literature and
music.
39. John Dowland’s Flow My Tears consists of _______ musical sections that are each immediately repeated.
A. two
40. In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment _______.
A. is given equal prominence with the voice
41. Which of the following statements regarding the Renaissance is not true?
A. Secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.
42. Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ______.
A. the concert hall
43. Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ______.
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A. Michael Praetorius
B. Pierre Francisque Caroubel
C. Thomas Weelkes
D. Thomas Morley
44. What is the passamezzo?
A. A lively dance in triple meter
45. A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the ______.
D. shawm
46. What is the galliard?
D. A French lute instrument
47. Which of the following is not true of Venice in the sixteenth century?
D. It became a center of instrumental and vocal music.
48. Which of the following composers was not a member of the Venetian school of the sixteenth century?
A. Andrea Gabrieli
49. The focal point of music in Venice was ______.
A. the Tivoli Gardens
50. St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice was noted for its ______.
A. underground treasuries
51. Unlike most Renaissance choral music, Venetian choral music of the late sixteenth century often ______.
A. used both male and female voices
52. Who was Giovanni Gabrieli?
A. The most important Venetian composer of the late Renaissance
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Feedback: Giovanni Gabrieli was a music director and organist of St. Mark’s Cathedral, following in the footsteps of his uncle,
Andrea Gabrieli, who taught his nephew music. Eventually, Giovanni became the most important Venetian composer of the late
Renaissance.
53. What is a polychoral motet?
A. A polyphonic composition for mixed voices