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Lute songs are mostly __________ in texture. homophonic

In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were priests

The Renaissance in music occurred between 1450 and 1600

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

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. Melancholy

The word Alleluia All answers are correct (is a Latinized form of the Hebrew word hallelujah; may be translated as "praise ye the Lord"; is often used in Gregorian Chant)

Gregorian Chant is monophonic in texture

An estampie is a medieval dance

The music the Medieval monks sang was called Gregorian chant

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

The church modes were the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages.

The Renaissance motet is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.

John Dowland's Flow My Tears consists of _______ musical sections that are each immediately repeated. three

What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from the pictures and literary descriptions of the day.

The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages All answers are correct (performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares; lived on the lowest level of society; played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes)

The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

was credited by medieval legend with having created it.

Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because All answers are correct (the typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest; the bass register is used for the first time; composers considered the harmonic effect of chords rather than superimposing one melody above another)

Which of the following statements is not true of humanism? The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.

____________ is a musical procedure in which a fugue subject is imitated before it is completed. Stretto

Which of the following statements is not true? Oratorios first appeared in England.

The sonata originated in Italy

The two giants of baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____________ period. late baroque

A type of polyphonic composition based on one main theme is a

fugue

A song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment is called a/an aria

All of the following were baroque painters except Isaac Newton

Bach created masterpieces in every baroque form except opera

The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the harpsichord

All of the following were major baroque composers except Pierluigi da Palestrina.

The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of basso continuo

The longest period of Johann Sebastian Bach's professional life was spent as director of music at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig

Affections in baroque usage refers to emotional states or moods of music.

Baroque trio sonatas usually involve ____________ performers. four

A two-part collection of preludes and fugues, one in each major and minor key and basic to the repertoire of keyboard players today, is Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.

The earliest opera that has been preserved is Jacopo Peri's Euridice

Handel is associated with the __________ period. late baroque

Terraced dynamics refers to the sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another.

Turning the subject of a fugue upside down, or reversing the direction of each interval, is called inversion

Melodic sequence refers to the successive repetition of a musical idea at higher or lower pitches.

Bach was recognized as the most eminent ____________ of his day. organist

George Frideric Handel was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach...