Music 101 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Hildegard of Bingen - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔middle medieval (1098-1179)
1st composer
set her music to her own text (no scriptural references)
O rubor Sanguinis (chant) (monophonic)
Leonius - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1169-1201) Early Gothic
1st named composer of polyphonic music
began adding an additional voice to the original chant
Organum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Earliest form of polyphonic music
Perotinus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1198-1236)
successor to Leonius
revised Leonius' work and began adding a second and third voice over original
chant
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,Guillame de Machant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Notre Dame of Reims
most important composer of his day...
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led a double life: wrote sacred songs for the Church and minstril songs for the
court
Troubadours - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔poet-musicians
sang in the vernacular
trobar= to find
Beatriz, Countess of Dia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Married to Count William of Poitiers
In love with Raimbant d'Orange, a fellow troubadour
wrote A chantar me'er
used a vielle (medieval fiddle)
Guillaume Dufay - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔wrote Ce moy de may:
-vernacular
-metric
-dance & song combined
- very cheerful
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, - free polyphony
Josquin Desprez - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1455-1521) beginning of Renaissance
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1st composer of Renaissance
very tempermental
Renaissance Motet
wrote Ave Maria:
-imitation (polyphony)
-alternates w/chordal writing (homophony)
-1st time we've heard imitative polyphony
Giovanni Palestrina - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1525-1594)
Sistine Chapel
"Savior of Church music"
wrote Pope Marcellus Mass
-a capella
-6 voice parts (SATTBB)
-all male choir
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Hildegard of Bingen - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔middle medieval (1098-1179)
1st composer
set her music to her own text (no scriptural references)
O rubor Sanguinis (chant) (monophonic)
Leonius - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1169-1201) Early Gothic
1st named composer of polyphonic music
began adding an additional voice to the original chant
Organum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Earliest form of polyphonic music
Perotinus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1198-1236)
successor to Leonius
revised Leonius' work and began adding a second and third voice over original
chant
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,Guillame de Machant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Notre Dame of Reims
most important composer of his day...
2
led a double life: wrote sacred songs for the Church and minstril songs for the
court
Troubadours - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔poet-musicians
sang in the vernacular
trobar= to find
Beatriz, Countess of Dia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Married to Count William of Poitiers
In love with Raimbant d'Orange, a fellow troubadour
wrote A chantar me'er
used a vielle (medieval fiddle)
Guillaume Dufay - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔wrote Ce moy de may:
-vernacular
-metric
-dance & song combined
- very cheerful
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, - free polyphony
Josquin Desprez - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1455-1521) beginning of Renaissance
3
1st composer of Renaissance
very tempermental
Renaissance Motet
wrote Ave Maria:
-imitation (polyphony)
-alternates w/chordal writing (homophony)
-1st time we've heard imitative polyphony
Giovanni Palestrina - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(1525-1594)
Sistine Chapel
"Savior of Church music"
wrote Pope Marcellus Mass
-a capella
-6 voice parts (SATTBB)
-all male choir
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