Music 101 Exam 1 Study Guide
Questions and Answers
Alleluia, O Virga Mediatrix - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Hildegard
Gaude Maria Vigro - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Notre Dame School Composers
Ma fin est mon commencement - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Machaut
II bianco e dolce cigno - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Arcadelt
Fair Phyllis - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Farmer
Ave Maria...vigro serena - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Josquin
"Gloria" from Pope Marcellus Mass - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Palestrina
Three Dances - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Susan
Disjunct Melody - Answer-Melodies that move by large intervals
ex. "take me out to the ballgame"
Conjunct Melody - Answer-melodies that move by small intervals
ex. ode to joy
Meter - Answer-organization of beat
triple - Answer-three four
duple - Answer-two four
downbeat - Answer-going down and first beat of any meter
upbeat - Answer-last beat of any meter / going up
, syncopation - Answer-accents on off beats or weak beats
chord - Answer-three or more notes at the same time
scale - Answer-pitches that ascend or descend in a particular order
"do ri me fa so la ti do"
octave - Answer-two pitches that sound the same but are 8 notes apart
tonic - Answer-scale degree 1. first note of any scale
dominant - Answer-scale degree 5. fifth note in scale
modulation - Answer-key change, change in pitch center (C major to G major)
ex mariah carey songs be dumb lit
monophony - Answer-single voice (even an octave apart)
Homophony - Answer-one melodic voice over an accompaniment
Polyphony - Answer-multiple voices using melodic lines
Homorythm - Answer-Type of Homophony. the voices in the gyms but moving at the
same time
Imitation - Answer-melodic line that is copied or mimicked
Syllabic - Answer-note for every pitch
ex. "angles we have heard on high"
Melismatic - Answer-single syllable with many notes
ex "Glooooooooooria"
Word Painting - Answer-Musical technique that reflects the literal meaning of the song
ex. phantom of the opera when he is singing descending line and they are descending
in dungeon
**word painting in the one that is english
Binary Form - Answer-2 (AB)
Questions and Answers
Alleluia, O Virga Mediatrix - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Hildegard
Gaude Maria Vigro - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Notre Dame School Composers
Ma fin est mon commencement - Answer-Medieval
Composer: Machaut
II bianco e dolce cigno - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Arcadelt
Fair Phyllis - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Farmer
Ave Maria...vigro serena - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Josquin
"Gloria" from Pope Marcellus Mass - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Palestrina
Three Dances - Answer-Renaissance
Composer: Susan
Disjunct Melody - Answer-Melodies that move by large intervals
ex. "take me out to the ballgame"
Conjunct Melody - Answer-melodies that move by small intervals
ex. ode to joy
Meter - Answer-organization of beat
triple - Answer-three four
duple - Answer-two four
downbeat - Answer-going down and first beat of any meter
upbeat - Answer-last beat of any meter / going up
, syncopation - Answer-accents on off beats or weak beats
chord - Answer-three or more notes at the same time
scale - Answer-pitches that ascend or descend in a particular order
"do ri me fa so la ti do"
octave - Answer-two pitches that sound the same but are 8 notes apart
tonic - Answer-scale degree 1. first note of any scale
dominant - Answer-scale degree 5. fifth note in scale
modulation - Answer-key change, change in pitch center (C major to G major)
ex mariah carey songs be dumb lit
monophony - Answer-single voice (even an octave apart)
Homophony - Answer-one melodic voice over an accompaniment
Polyphony - Answer-multiple voices using melodic lines
Homorythm - Answer-Type of Homophony. the voices in the gyms but moving at the
same time
Imitation - Answer-melodic line that is copied or mimicked
Syllabic - Answer-note for every pitch
ex. "angles we have heard on high"
Melismatic - Answer-single syllable with many notes
ex "Glooooooooooria"
Word Painting - Answer-Musical technique that reflects the literal meaning of the song
ex. phantom of the opera when he is singing descending line and they are descending
in dungeon
**word painting in the one that is english
Binary Form - Answer-2 (AB)
