FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSHIST TES 1 C 4-6

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSHIST TES 1 C 4-6

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-Guarantee passing score -48 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What is the earliest manuscript to contain examples of organum, and what is its approximate date?

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(c1000 CE) and is called Winchester Troper

Question 2: List four ways that secular music is similar to church music.

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1) Monophonic 2) it has no regular rhythmic pattern or meter 3) the song moves predominantly in step-wise motion 4) It has a strong sense of church mode (in this case, the Dorian mode)

Question 3: What historical even eventually led to the work of Notker Balbulus?

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A monk from Jumieges monastery fled from the abbey so he wouldn't be found by the Vikings who were raiding the country at around 850. This monk found refuge in St. Gaul and he was carrying a few notated sequences. Notker that he could compose them better.

Question 4: What was the purpose of oblique motion?

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To avoid tritone, the author of the Musica enchiriadis urges the organal voice to remain stationary at those potentially dangerous moments when there is a dissonant tritone, such as when the F and B sound together.

Question 5: What famous king was also an early trouvere?

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King Richard I of England (1157-1199). He is also called Richard the Lionheart because he showed courage during the crusades.Question 6: What was the term for the main female singer who directed the choir in community of nuns?

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The cantrix Question 7: in parellel organum, is the chant tune above or below the added voice?

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It is a fourth or fifth above.Question 8: What music theorist in which work (give both Latin and English titles) provided the eight church modes with the names and numbers that are still in use for Gregorian chant?

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John of St. Gall (John Cotton). He wrote the treatise called De Musica (on Music) Question 9: When did aristocratic courts first emerge as centers for the arts? Include the term for the period as well as the centuries.

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During the high Middle Ages. 12th and 13th centuries Question 10: Who wrote one of the earliest three-voice compositions, and what is its name?

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Master Albertus of Paris wrote one of the earliest three-voice compositions, and his composition is Congaudean Catholici (Let the faithful rejoice)

Question 11: About how many songs of the trouveres survive with music?

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1,400 are left that have melodies Question 12: Why did musicians begin creating tropes, sequences, and liturgical dramas?

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Musicians felt the need to express themselves outside of the Proper and Ordinary of the Mass which started the three new kinds of chant stated in the question.

Question 13: Who wrote the only surviving song by a trobairitz?

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Countess Beatriz de Dia wrote the only surviving song and it was called "A chantar m'er (I must sing)"

Question 14: What is a chansonnier?

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They are song books or a printed manuscript with chants, poetry, and songs inside

Question 15: What is the name of hte funeral Mass (Mass of the Dead)?

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Requiem Mass Question 16: What theorist in what work was the first to be concerned about cadence, and what did he call it?

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Guido of Arezzo was concerned about occursus (cadences) in his work Micrologus (c1030)

Question 17: Who was the very first troubadour whose name is unknown?

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Duke William IX (1071-1126) Question 18: Why was much - perhaps most - secular music from the Middle ages lost to posterity?

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It was never written down

Question 19: What made the hexachord "soft"? That symbol eventually became what common musical symbol?

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If the hexachord was placed on F it was considered a soft hexachord. This hexachord included a rounded symbol for "b". This eventually became the flat sing.Question 20: From which composer does the most chant survive? (This is a composer whose name you must know)

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Hildregard of Bingen (1098-1179) Question 21: How often were tropes and sequences sung during the course of the church year?

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Thirty high feasts of the church year are how often tropes and sequences are sung and were not sung every day.Question 22: What manuscript from what date is the first to give composers' names for particular compositions?

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Codex calixtinus (c1150) Question 23: In parallel organum, what is the name of the voice that has the original chant tune?

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Vox principalis (principal voice) Question 24: A secular song in souther France was called a _____. In northern France it was called a _______

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canso and chanson Question 25: Who was the leader in the creation of the musical staff and note names? Include his dates

Answer:

Guido of Arezzo (c991-c1033)