Chapter 9 Quiz

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. Which term describes the practice of setting musical lines against each other-literally "note against note"?

Contranotational correct incorrect

Polyphonic harmonization correct incorrect

Counterpoint correct incorrect

Neumatic balancing correct incorrect

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. Which city was the center of a vibrant new style of polyphony during the late 12^th and early 13^th centuries?

London correct incorrect

Rome correct incorrect

Vienna correct incorrect

Paris correct incorrect

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. How do we know that the anonymous first composers of Western polyphony were educated church clerics?

Because the new music required notation correct incorrect

Because the text for the new music was strictly written in Greek correct incorrect

Because the music obeyed strict rules in modal usage codified by Pope Francis I correct incorrect

Because the composers used ancient Hebrew melodies derived from the Psalms of King David as the basis for their music correct incorrect

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. The composer Léonin likely held what position or title?

Courtier correct incorrect

Priest correct incorrect

Abbot correct incorrect

Master of the musicians' guild correct incorrect

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. A few centuries after Hildegard of Bingen composed her visionary chants, a radically different type of music-polyphony-was developing.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Léonin's practice of taking existing musical material and layering his own complementary music against it is a method that has continued to be used by more recent classical and jazz composers of the 19^th-21^st centuries.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Match the Gothic architectural innovation to its effect.

Pointed arch

Select an answer choice Offered external support that allowed for taller buildings Required less structural support, allowing for more stained glass windows Redistributed weight so as seemingly to defy gravity

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Flying buttress

Select an answer choice Redistributed weight so as seemingly to defy gravity Offered external support that allowed for taller buildings Required less structural support, allowing for more stained glass windows

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Ribbed vault

Select an answer choice Required less structural support, allowing for more stained glass windows Offered external support that allowed for taller buildings Redistributed weight so as seemingly to defy gravity

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. Listen to the selection from the third section of Léonin's Viderunt omnes-what best describes what the composer does in this section?

Homophonic correct incorrect

Heterophonic correct incorrect

Polyphonic correct incorrect

Monophonic correct incorrect