Chapter 4 Quiz

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. Quam pulchra es was written by ___________.

a) Guillaume de Machaut correct incorrect

b) John Dunstable correct incorrect

c) Guillaume Du Fay correct incorrect

d) Johannes Ockeghem correct incorrect

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. Which of the following describes the music of Quam pulchra es?

a) Pervasive consonance correct incorrect

b) Based on love poetry correct incorrect

c) Prevalence of triadic harmony correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. A cantilena motet is best described as ___________.

a) A French song featuring two contratenors correct incorrect

b) The improvisatory practice of adding thirds and sixths to a preexisting monophonic melody correct incorrect

c) A treble-dominated Latin choral piece correct incorrect

d) A motet using the same cantus firmus in every section correct incorrect

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. Which harmonic interval became a consonance through early fifteenth-century English influence?

a) Second correct incorrect

b) Third correct incorrect

c) Fourth correct incorrect

d) Fifth correct incorrect

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. The Old Hall Manuscript contains many important ___________ compositions.

a) French correct incorrect

b) German correct incorrect

c) Italian correct incorrect

d) English correct incorrect

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. Du Fay developed a technique called fauxbourdon, through which ________:

a) A two-part work could be transformed into three parts correct incorrect

b) A common melody is shared throughout a cyclic Mass correct incorrect

c) The different voice parts trade the melodic line according to an advanced mathematical formula correct incorrect

d) Rhythmic patterns are repeated with minor variations that eventually transform into entirely new patterns correct incorrect

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. The Council of Constance was ___________.

a) An ecumenical church meeting to end the Great Schism and choose a single pope correct incorrect

b) A fourteenth-century meeting between the kings of France, England, and Italy correct incorrect

c) The conclusion to the Norman invasion of England correct incorrect

d) A treaty brokered between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor correct incorrect

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. A setting of the Mass Ordinary in which all items share the same tenor melody is commonly called ___________.

a) A unified Mass correct incorrect

b) A Mass Proper correct incorrect

c) An emulation Mass correct incorrect

d) A cyclic Mass correct incorrect

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. Almost every composer mentioned by Johannes Tinctoris's wrote at least one ___________.

a) Isorhythmic motet cycle correct incorrect

b) Missa L'Homme armé correct incorrect

c) Chanson collective correct incorrect

d) Isorhythmic virelai correct incorrect

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. Of the following, who is not a fifteenth-century composer?

a) Guillaume Du Fay correct incorrect

b) John Dunstable correct incorrect

c) Gilles Binchois correct incorrect

d) Guillaume de Machaut correct incorrect

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. What are the Caput Masses?

a) Polyphonic Masses by Josquin des Prez that reflect the architectural proportions of famous Italian cathedrals correct incorrect

b) Cyclic Masses by various composers that all use the Caput melisma as a cantus firmus correct incorrect

c) A series of Masses by Guillaume Du Fay, encompassing all Sundays in Advent correct incorrect

d) Cyclic Masses by various composers that returned to a strictly monophonic, or "capped" setting correct incorrect

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. More than forty Mass settings of Se la face ay pale survive.

a) TRUE correct incorrect

b) FALSE correct incorrect

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. ___________ are a Milanese collection of substitute motets to be sung during Mass.

a) Votive motets correct incorrect

b) Cyclic motets correct incorrect

c) Motetti missales correct incorrect

d) Motets angoisseux correct incorrect

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. Ottaviano Petrucci was ___________.

a) The composer of Quam pulchra es correct incorrect

b) The most famous composer of a Caput Mass correct incorrect

c) The first music printer to use moveable type correct incorrect

d) The Italian Pope who was a great patron of Du Fay correct incorrect

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. Of the following, which composer does not come from French or Flemish lands?

a) Antoine Busnoys correct incorrect

b) Gilles Binchois correct incorrect

c) Johannes Ockeghem correct incorrect

d) John Dunstable correct incorrect