MHS EXAM 2 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND VARIFIED ANSWERS
Approx. dates of the Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1400-1600
Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅French for rebirth
What changes did moveable type have on music? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-wider dissemination of
written music
-amateur music making
-encouraged new rep. and genres
-more music in vernacular
-more secular music
-growth of music literacy
-growth of music literature
Renaissance style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅expressive, focus on consonance, strict rules for
dissonance, important on text
-rules for dissonance: avoid parallel 5ths and octaves
limited to passing and neighbor tones on unstressed beats and to syncopated passages at cadences
What was interesting/different about Missa Prolationum by Ockenghem - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-
Mensural notation
---each voice interprets the time signature differently
---mensuration canon (going at different speeds with the same material)
notated in 2 voices, but sung in 4 using four prolations of mensural notation
sop. sings notes in sop. clef, in the mensuration sign that is duple meter
alto reads the line using the mezzo-sop. clef using mensuration that is triple meter
tenor and bass read the contra part in a similar fashion
National style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅16th century
, -amateur music making
-focus on the vernacular
-vocal music in vernacular language
International style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-15th century (came first)
---the war had people moving around, so more were in other countries
musicians and composers serving in different lands allowed them to learn different styles and genres
synthesized elements from English, French, and Italian traditions
set music of 15th century apart from 14th
created a new counterpoint
Who were the early madrigal composers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Phillipe Verdelot
Jacques Arcadelt
Who were the mid-century madrigal performers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅cipriano de rore
Who were the late century madrigal performers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅orlando de lassus
luca marenzio
carlo gesualdo
Music's role in the Lutheran church (important?) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Music was central as a
means for the church congregation to have a larger role in the church (Lutheran chorale)
Music's role in the Calvinist church (important? Instruments?) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅stripped
churches of everything that might distract worshipers (like instruments), but valued singing for the
ability to unite worshippers in expressing their faith and praising God.
-just voice! no instruments
Approx. dates of the Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1400-1600
Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅French for rebirth
What changes did moveable type have on music? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-wider dissemination of
written music
-amateur music making
-encouraged new rep. and genres
-more music in vernacular
-more secular music
-growth of music literacy
-growth of music literature
Renaissance style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅expressive, focus on consonance, strict rules for
dissonance, important on text
-rules for dissonance: avoid parallel 5ths and octaves
limited to passing and neighbor tones on unstressed beats and to syncopated passages at cadences
What was interesting/different about Missa Prolationum by Ockenghem - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-
Mensural notation
---each voice interprets the time signature differently
---mensuration canon (going at different speeds with the same material)
notated in 2 voices, but sung in 4 using four prolations of mensural notation
sop. sings notes in sop. clef, in the mensuration sign that is duple meter
alto reads the line using the mezzo-sop. clef using mensuration that is triple meter
tenor and bass read the contra part in a similar fashion
National style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅16th century
, -amateur music making
-focus on the vernacular
-vocal music in vernacular language
International style - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-15th century (came first)
---the war had people moving around, so more were in other countries
musicians and composers serving in different lands allowed them to learn different styles and genres
synthesized elements from English, French, and Italian traditions
set music of 15th century apart from 14th
created a new counterpoint
Who were the early madrigal composers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Phillipe Verdelot
Jacques Arcadelt
Who were the mid-century madrigal performers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅cipriano de rore
Who were the late century madrigal performers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅orlando de lassus
luca marenzio
carlo gesualdo
Music's role in the Lutheran church (important?) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Music was central as a
means for the church congregation to have a larger role in the church (Lutheran chorale)
Music's role in the Calvinist church (important? Instruments?) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅stripped
churches of everything that might distract worshipers (like instruments), but valued singing for the
ability to unite worshippers in expressing their faith and praising God.
-just voice! no instruments
