MUSIC 101 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Hildegard of Binge - CORRECT ANSWER -middle medieval (1098-1179)
1st composer
set her music to her own text (no scriptural references)
O rumor Sanguine (chant) (monophonic)
Leoni’s - CORRECT ANSWER -(1169-1201) Early Gothic
1st named composer of polyphonic music
began adding an additional voice to the original chant
Organism - CORRECT ANSWER -Earliest form of polyphonic music
Pretorius - CORRECT ANSWER -(1198-1236)
successor to Leoni’s
revised Leoni’s' work and began adding a second and third voice over original chant
Guillemet de Merchant - CORRECT ANSWER -Notre Dame of Reims
most important composer of his day...
led a double life: wrote sacred songs for the Church and minstrel songs for the court
Troubadours - CORRECT ANSWER -poet-musicians
sang in the vernacular
trocar= to find
Beatriz, Countess of Die - CORRECT ANSWER -Married to Count William of Poitiers
In love with Rampant orange, a fellow troubadour
wrote A chanter meter
used a Vielle (medieval fiddle)
Guillaume Dufay - CORRECT ANSWER -wrote Ce Moy de may:
-vernacular
-metric
-dance & song combined
- very cheerful
- free polyphony
Joaquin Desires - CORRECT ANSWER -(1455-1521) beginning of Renaissance
1st composer of Renaissance
very temperamental
, Renaissance Motet
wrote Ave Maria:
-imitation (polyphony)
-alternates w/chordal writing (homophony)
-1st time we've heard imitative polyphony
Giovanni Palestrina - CORRECT ANSWER -(1525-1594)
Sistine Chapel
"Savior of Church music"
wrote Pope Marcellus Mass
-a Capella
-6 voice parts (SATTBB)
-all male choir
-"Gloria" moves mostly in block chords
-"Angus Dei" uses imitation w/out losing clarity of the text
Castrate - CORRECT ANSWER -Boy soprano
Male alto (only falsetto)
Counter tenor (falsetto and natural voice)
Tenor
Baritone
Bass
Castrato Singer - CORRECT ANSWER -Guys that can sing very high because of a
certain procedure they had at a very young age
Saved money (choir boys were expensive)
Johannes Gutenberg - CORRECT ANSWER -Printing Press (c.1440)
spurred rebirth of ancient writings of Greece and Rome
literacy, music literacy, and Protestantism spread quickly
Dance music: pagane - CORRECT ANSWER -slow, gliding dance in duple meter
Dance music: galliard - CORRECT ANSWER -fast, leaping dance in triple meter
The Madrigal - CORRECT ANSWER -began in Italy
4-5 solo voices
love poem set to music
Humanistic ideal that the text is emphasized by the music
word painting
Hildegard of Binge - CORRECT ANSWER -middle medieval (1098-1179)
1st composer
set her music to her own text (no scriptural references)
O rumor Sanguine (chant) (monophonic)
Leoni’s - CORRECT ANSWER -(1169-1201) Early Gothic
1st named composer of polyphonic music
began adding an additional voice to the original chant
Organism - CORRECT ANSWER -Earliest form of polyphonic music
Pretorius - CORRECT ANSWER -(1198-1236)
successor to Leoni’s
revised Leoni’s' work and began adding a second and third voice over original chant
Guillemet de Merchant - CORRECT ANSWER -Notre Dame of Reims
most important composer of his day...
led a double life: wrote sacred songs for the Church and minstrel songs for the court
Troubadours - CORRECT ANSWER -poet-musicians
sang in the vernacular
trocar= to find
Beatriz, Countess of Die - CORRECT ANSWER -Married to Count William of Poitiers
In love with Rampant orange, a fellow troubadour
wrote A chanter meter
used a Vielle (medieval fiddle)
Guillaume Dufay - CORRECT ANSWER -wrote Ce Moy de may:
-vernacular
-metric
-dance & song combined
- very cheerful
- free polyphony
Joaquin Desires - CORRECT ANSWER -(1455-1521) beginning of Renaissance
1st composer of Renaissance
very temperamental
, Renaissance Motet
wrote Ave Maria:
-imitation (polyphony)
-alternates w/chordal writing (homophony)
-1st time we've heard imitative polyphony
Giovanni Palestrina - CORRECT ANSWER -(1525-1594)
Sistine Chapel
"Savior of Church music"
wrote Pope Marcellus Mass
-a Capella
-6 voice parts (SATTBB)
-all male choir
-"Gloria" moves mostly in block chords
-"Angus Dei" uses imitation w/out losing clarity of the text
Castrate - CORRECT ANSWER -Boy soprano
Male alto (only falsetto)
Counter tenor (falsetto and natural voice)
Tenor
Baritone
Bass
Castrato Singer - CORRECT ANSWER -Guys that can sing very high because of a
certain procedure they had at a very young age
Saved money (choir boys were expensive)
Johannes Gutenberg - CORRECT ANSWER -Printing Press (c.1440)
spurred rebirth of ancient writings of Greece and Rome
literacy, music literacy, and Protestantism spread quickly
Dance music: pagane - CORRECT ANSWER -slow, gliding dance in duple meter
Dance music: galliard - CORRECT ANSWER -fast, leaping dance in triple meter
The Madrigal - CORRECT ANSWER -began in Italy
4-5 solo voices
love poem set to music
Humanistic ideal that the text is emphasized by the music
word painting
