MUSI 1306 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The earliest forms of polyphonic music were known as organum.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Choral music with orchestra was a new feature of the Renaissance.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]A pre-existing melody used for a new composition, usually a mass, is
called a cantus firmus.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Sacred music began to die out during the Renaissance.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Composers wrote in scales rather than church modes during the
Middle Ages.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Pitch range expanded during the Renaissance.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]During the middle Ages everything in music, art and literature was
directed by the church.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Vivaldi and Delius were considered to be great composers of the
Renaissance.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]The prevailing musical texture of the Renaissance was homophony.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Josquin Desprez was the first great renassance master who became
famous for his developments in instrumental music.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Mouth organs and wastub basses were new instruments of the
Middle Ages.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]During the Baroque Period, instrumental music came to rival vocal
music.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The organ and harpischord became a major instruments in the
Baroque.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]In the concerto grosso, a large group of soloists is accompanied by
an equal number of players.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Ritornello form is the alternation between the solo groups and large
groups of players in concertos and concerto grossos.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Harmony is the physical basis of music.
, ✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Two or more musical ideas occurring at the same time is known as
monophony.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The troubadours and Trouveres are assoicated with secular music of
the High Middle Ages.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Beethoven was a Classical Period master wo had two (2)
compositional periods.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Haydn played a key role in the evolution of the symphony.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The two (2) main parts of the Mass are the ordinary and the proper.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]New musical forms of the Classical Period were theme & variations,
rondo and minuet/trio.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Composers specified articulation and dynamic changes with great
precision in the Romantic Period.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The Romantic Period is often described as a revolt against the artistic
principles of the previous century.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]The pitch range in the Romantic Period did not expand much from
the Classical Period.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Hector Berlioz was known as a composer of small, intimate works.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Chopin was considered an early exponent of Nationalism because of
his use of Polish dance rhythms such a mazurkas and polonaises in his piano
composistions.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Verismo opera is a late 19th Century movement associated with
Fance and Germany.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Beautiful, singable, memorable melodies are the hallmark of 19th
Century Romanticism.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Program Music was a favorite genre of 19th Century composers.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The term gesamtkunstwerk is associated with the music dramas of
Richard Wagner.
GRADED A+
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The earliest forms of polyphonic music were known as organum.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Choral music with orchestra was a new feature of the Renaissance.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]A pre-existing melody used for a new composition, usually a mass, is
called a cantus firmus.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Sacred music began to die out during the Renaissance.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Composers wrote in scales rather than church modes during the
Middle Ages.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Pitch range expanded during the Renaissance.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]During the middle Ages everything in music, art and literature was
directed by the church.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Vivaldi and Delius were considered to be great composers of the
Renaissance.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]The prevailing musical texture of the Renaissance was homophony.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Josquin Desprez was the first great renassance master who became
famous for his developments in instrumental music.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Mouth organs and wastub basses were new instruments of the
Middle Ages.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]During the Baroque Period, instrumental music came to rival vocal
music.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The organ and harpischord became a major instruments in the
Baroque.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]In the concerto grosso, a large group of soloists is accompanied by
an equal number of players.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Ritornello form is the alternation between the solo groups and large
groups of players in concertos and concerto grossos.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Harmony is the physical basis of music.
, ✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Two or more musical ideas occurring at the same time is known as
monophony.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The troubadours and Trouveres are assoicated with secular music of
the High Middle Ages.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Beethoven was a Classical Period master wo had two (2)
compositional periods.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Haydn played a key role in the evolution of the symphony.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The two (2) main parts of the Mass are the ordinary and the proper.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]New musical forms of the Classical Period were theme & variations,
rondo and minuet/trio.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Composers specified articulation and dynamic changes with great
precision in the Romantic Period.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The Romantic Period is often described as a revolt against the artistic
principles of the previous century.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]The pitch range in the Romantic Period did not expand much from
the Classical Period.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Hector Berlioz was known as a composer of small, intimate works.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Chopin was considered an early exponent of Nationalism because of
his use of Polish dance rhythms such a mazurkas and polonaises in his piano
composistions.
✔✔False - ✔✔[T/F]Verismo opera is a late 19th Century movement associated with
Fance and Germany.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Beautiful, singable, memorable melodies are the hallmark of 19th
Century Romanticism.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]Program Music was a favorite genre of 19th Century composers.
✔✔True - ✔✔[T/F]The term gesamtkunstwerk is associated with the music dramas of
Richard Wagner.
