Loyola Marymount University

MUSC 102

Quiz #1 - Medieval and Renaissance

1)Pope Gregory_.

 

1. 1. composed all of the Gregorian chants
   2. published all of the Gregorian chants
   3. reorganized the liturgy of the Catholic Church
   4. all of the above

 

2. Gregorian chant consists of   .

 

1. 1. one instrument playing alone
   2. one melody sung without accompaniment
   3. several voices singing in harmony
   4. several instruments playing together

 

3. All of the following are true of Gregorian chant except            .

 

1. 1. it conveys a calm, otherworldly quality
   2. its exact rhythm is uncertain
   3. the melodies tend to move in stepwise fashion
   4. it was usually polyphonic in texture

 

4.               was the most significant woman composer of chant.

 

1. 1. Teresa of Avilla
   2. Joan of Arc
   3. Hildegard of Bingen
   4. Bernadette of Santiago

 

5. Both the Gregorian chant example and the organum example to which we listened to in class were part of the Mass but not a movement from the Ordinary. They were both examples of a movement called the               .

 

1. 1. Alleluia
   2. Introduction
   3. Processional
   4. Christe

 

6. The church modes were    .

 

1. 1. forms of religious ritual
   2. only used in the middle of the Catholic Church
   3. the basic scales of western music during the MIddle Ages and Renaissance
   4. chalices to hold holy relics

 

7. The first large body of romantic love songs that survives in notates scores is by            .

 

1. 1. priests and monks
   2. French aristocrats called troubadours and trouveres
   3. wandering minstrels or jongleurs
   4. professional dancers and singers

 

8. An estampie is a          .

 

1. 1. movement from the Mass
   2. medieval dance
   3. kind of medieval polyphony
   4. method of soil cultivation

 

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

 

1. 1. fugue
   2. organum
   3. madrigal
   4. oratorio

 

10. Cantus firmus is the term used for    .

 

1. a part of the Catholic Church’s religious service
2. a chant that is used as the basis for polyphony
3. the melody added to a Gregorian chant
4. the best singers of a church choir

 

11. The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information inb a time when there were no newspapers, were

        .

 

1. ranked on a high social level
2. on the lowest social level
3. at least on the social level of troubadours
4. welcomed by the nobility as distinguished guests

 

12. The composers Leonin and Perotin  .

 

1. were active at the School of Notre Dame in Paris
2. wrote Gregorian chant
3. composed music for five independent parts
4. wrote madrigals

 

13. Among other causes, secular music became more important than sacred music in the fourteenth century because       .

 

1. the literature of the time stressed earthly sensuality
2. rival popes claimed authority at the same time, thereby weakening the authority of the church
3. the feudal system had gone into decline, partly due to the plague
4. all of the above

 

14. The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut     .

 

1. was written for three voices without instrumental accompaniment
2. was written for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
3. is the first unified, polyphonic treatment of the Mass Ordinary
4. is a monophonic chant in Gregorian style

 

15. A movement called      was the dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance.

 

1. humanism
2. feudalism
3. paganism
4. classicism

 

16. The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the Mass Ordinary and the motet. The motet we listened to was                .

 

1. Josquin Desprez’s Ave Maria
2. Thomas Weelkes’s “As Vesta was Descending”
3. Palestrina’s Credo