Chapter 12 Quiz

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. How did Renaissance composers think of their music differently than their medieval counterparts?

They started with one voice, and then added parts to it in succession correct incorrect

They thought of the different parts simultaneously as they created their works correct incorrect

They rediscovered actual manuscripts detailing Greek modes, leading to new conceptions of harmony correct incorrect

They introduced polyphony to musical composition correct incorrect

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. What was Donato Bramante's Tempietto commissioned to mark?

The place where St. Paul delivered his address to the Romans correct incorrect

The birthplace of Cicero correct incorrect

The place where Emperor Nero was murdered correct incorrect

The presumed site of St. Peter's crucifixion correct incorrect

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. What two new modes were introduced during the Renaissance that became the basis for a new system of understanding music?

Pentatonic and octatonic scales correct incorrect

Lydian and mixolydian modes correct incorrect

Major and minor scales correct incorrect

Aeolian and dorian modes correct incorrect

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. Composers from which nation first experimented with triads?

France correct incorrect

Spain correct incorrect

Italy correct incorrect

England correct incorrect

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. During the 15^th and 16^th centuries, composers still drew on courtly love poetry from the Middle Ages for their secular music, but lost all interest in using Gregorian plainchant or church modes.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Renaissance humanists reaffirmed the ancient Greek idea that music could powerfully shape and influence human behavior.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect