Praxis 2 - Music Content Knowledge (5113) Questions and Answers

Praxis 2 - Music Content Knowledge
(5113)

Medieval Music (General Ideas) – answer mostly vocal
1) Sacred 2) Secular
Gregorian Chant & Masses
Later organum, motet (both Sec and Sac Music),
troubadours & trouveres

Sacred Music - answer Medieval Era:
-Gregorian Chant/Masses
- motet

Gregorian Chant - answerhas free flowing melodies, no distinct meter, is melismatic,
mostly monophonic, and sung by unaccompanied voice or choir

Secular Music - answer*Medieval Era:*
- music for dance and entertainment such as that of the troubadours and trouvères
- driving force of musical development at the end of the M. Era
- drone accompaniment and had regular meter, syncopations, polyphony, and harmony.

Organum - answerMedieval Era

A polyphonic work consisting of a pre-exsisting chant in one voice and at least one
added voice above or below

AKA an old chant was given a new decoration that was harmony with only two parts

Masses - answer-the driving force of musical development in the Medieval and
Renaissance eras

- the liturgy of the Ordinary set to music


Medieval
- important religious ritual
- featured non-imitative polyphony

Renaissance
- polyphony
- music notation reformed
-complete masses written by single composer