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NBCT Music Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: Antiquity
ANS 🗹🗹: 476-1450; marked by fall of Rome
Q:
monophonic
ANS 🗹🗹: one line with one sound
Q:
homophonic
ANS 🗹🗹: melody with harmony
Q:
polyphonic
ANS 🗹🗹: multiple melodies
Q:
Pythagoras
ANS 🗹🗹: weighed hammers to discover intervals
Q:
Doctrine of Ethos
ANS 🗹🗹: music has power to determine human behavior
Q:
musica mandana
ANS 🗹🗹: cosmic music
Q:
musica humana
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ANS 🗹🗹: movement of spirits inside humans
Q:
musica instrumentalis
ANS 🗹🗹: music as it's defined today
Q:
Characteristics of medieval chant
ANS 🗹🗹: call and response, a cappella, male, no fixed meter, monophonic
Q:
strophic
ANS 🗹🗹: same melody, different words
Q:
Ionian mode
ANS 🗹🗹: major scale
Q:
Dorian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 3, flat 7
Q:
Phrygian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 2, 3, 6, 7
Q:
Lydian
ANS 🗹🗹: sharp 4
Q:
mixolydian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 7
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Aeolian
ANS 🗹🗹: natural minor; flat 3, 6, 7
Q:
Locrian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Q:
Guido of Arezzo
ANS 🗹🗹: inventor of solfege
Q:
troubadour
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from southern France
Q:
trouvere
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from northern France
Q:
minnesinger
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from Germany
Q:
organum
ANS 🗹🗹: medieval polyphony with precomposed Gregorian chant and one (or
more) lines
Q:
diabolus in musica
ANS 🗹🗹: tritone
Q:
vox principalis
NBCT Music Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: Antiquity
ANS 🗹🗹: 476-1450; marked by fall of Rome
Q:
monophonic
ANS 🗹🗹: one line with one sound
Q:
homophonic
ANS 🗹🗹: melody with harmony
Q:
polyphonic
ANS 🗹🗹: multiple melodies
Q:
Pythagoras
ANS 🗹🗹: weighed hammers to discover intervals
Q:
Doctrine of Ethos
ANS 🗹🗹: music has power to determine human behavior
Q:
musica mandana
ANS 🗹🗹: cosmic music
Q:
musica humana
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ANS 🗹🗹: movement of spirits inside humans
Q:
musica instrumentalis
ANS 🗹🗹: music as it's defined today
Q:
Characteristics of medieval chant
ANS 🗹🗹: call and response, a cappella, male, no fixed meter, monophonic
Q:
strophic
ANS 🗹🗹: same melody, different words
Q:
Ionian mode
ANS 🗹🗹: major scale
Q:
Dorian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 3, flat 7
Q:
Phrygian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 2, 3, 6, 7
Q:
Lydian
ANS 🗹🗹: sharp 4
Q:
mixolydian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 7
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Q:
Aeolian
ANS 🗹🗹: natural minor; flat 3, 6, 7
Q:
Locrian
ANS 🗹🗹: flat 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Q:
Guido of Arezzo
ANS 🗹🗹: inventor of solfege
Q:
troubadour
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from southern France
Q:
trouvere
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from northern France
Q:
minnesinger
ANS 🗹🗹: secular musician from Germany
Q:
organum
ANS 🗹🗹: medieval polyphony with precomposed Gregorian chant and one (or
more) lines
Q:
diabolus in musica
ANS 🗹🗹: tritone
Q:
vox principalis
