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Music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text is called____________ | word painting |
___________ is the method of assigning a syllabic name to each tone of the scale | solmization |
Layered dynamic levels within a composition are called____________ | terraced dynamics |
Polyphonic choral compositions based on sacred texts are called | motets |
A method inwhich two voice parts sing the same melody and one is P4 or P5 higher than the other | parallel organum |
Markings over or under the text to signal pitch changes are called | neumes |
Music with no strict meter or accompaniment, sung by a single voice or unison choir | Plainsong |
The term __________ refers to written notation | score |
Accompaniment consisting of harpsichord sounding the chords and a viola da gamba playing bass | continuo |
The term _____________ means a rebirth and revival of human creativity | Renaissance |
What Period was "As Vesta Was Decending" by Thomas Weelkes written in? | Renaissance |
What Period was Gregorian chant, a plainsong named for Pope Gregory written in? | Medieval |
What Period was "Treatise on Harmony" by Jean-Philippe Rameau written in? | Late Baroque |
What Period was "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi written in? | Late Baroque |
What Period was "Pope Marcellus" mass by Palestrina written in? | Renaissance |
What Period was "La Bourrée" from Terpsichore by Praetorius written in? | Renaissance |
What Period was "Fugue No. 16 in G minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach written in? | Early Baroque |
What Period was "Prendes i garde" by Guillaume d'Amiens written in? | Medieval |
What Period was "Tu se' morta" from Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi written in? | Early Baroque |
What Period was "Estampie" a dance written in? | Medieval |
T or F The word fugue is derived from a German word meaning "chase" | true |
T or F Secular music is the foundation of Western classical music | false |
T or F Guido of Arezzo devised a notation system based on a five-line staff | false |
T or F The Greeks established the octave as the basic mathematical unit in music | true |
T or F Motets on sacred texts and secular madrigals were composed during the Renaissance | true |
What time period used mainly a monophonic texture and what is an example of it. | Medieval, Plainsongs or madrigals |
What time period used mainly a polyphonic texture and what is an example of it. | Renaissance & Early Baroque, motets |
What time period used mainly a homophonic texture and what is an example of it. | Late Baroque, Treatise on Harmony |
How was sacred music characterized in the medieval period? | voice only, monophonic or plainsong, no strict meter, accapella, single voice, unison group or organum |
How was secular music characterized in the medieval period? | Instrumental and voice, singing, dances, entertainment, express emotion |