Chapter 5: Quiz

" // Questions and Answers number_answers = new Array(5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5) q1="Which of the following features is not<\/i> characteristic of the English style of the early fifteenth century?"; q1a="major tonality rather than more modally conceived music"; q1b="each voice singing a different text"; q1c="the use of discant (homorhythmic) style"; q1d="a close connection to folk traditions"; q1e="preference for imperfect consonances (thirds and sixths)"; q1review=""; q1answer="b"; q2="A passage in which all three voices move in parallel motion, with the lower voices mirroring the top voice at the fourth and sixth below, is called__________."; q2a="isorhythm"; q2b="parallel organum"; q2c="fauxbourdon"; q2d="conductus style"; q2e="cantus firmus technique"; q2review=""; q2answer="c"; q3="English music was brought to continental Europe during the early fifteenth century in part as a result of the __________."; q3a="English rule over parts of France"; q3b="French rule over parts of England"; q3c="marriage of a French queen to an English king"; q3d="marriage of an English queen to a French king"; q3e="flood of English students in French schools"; q3review=""; q3answer="a"; q4="Which composer is most closely associated with English music of the early fifteenth century?"; q4a="Guillaume de Machaut"; q4b="Guillaume Du Fay"; q4c="John Taverner"; q4d="Gilles Binchois"; q4e="John Dunstable"; q4review=""; q4answer="e"; q5="By the first half of the fifteenth century, the word motet<\/i> was applied to__________."; q5a="any polyphonic composition using isorhythmic techniques"; q5b="any polyphonic composition using Latin words from the Ordinary of the Mass"; q5c="any polyphonic composition on a sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the Mass"; q5d="any polyphonic composition in Latin"; q5e="only polyphonic compositions in which all voices had different texts"; q5review=""; q5answer="c"; q6="The source for the chief collection of early fifteenthcentury English music is __________."; q6a="the Old Hall manuscript"; q6b="fragments of manuscripts at the British Library"; q6c="the Worcester Fragments"; q6d="the Trent codices"; q6e="none of the above"; q6review=""; q6answer="a"; q7="The language used for secular song texts composed in the Burgundian style was __________."; q7a="Burgundian"; q7b="English"; q7c="Flemish"; q7d="Latin"; q7e="none of the above"; q7review=""; q7answer="e"; q8="Although not employed by the dukes of Burgundy, the composer most closely associated with the Burgundian style is __________."; q8a="Du Fay"; q8b="Dunstable"; q8c="Machaut"; q8d="Le Franc"; q8e="none of the above"; q8review=""; q8answer="a"; q9="The duke of Burgundy employed __________."; q9a="singers for his chapel"; q9b="trumpeters"; q9c="viellists"; q9d="organists"; q9e="all of the above"; q9review=""; q9answer="e"; q10="The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which forms?"; q10a="isorhythm"; q10b="rondeau or ballade"; q10c="virelai or lai"; q10d="any of the above"; q10e="none of the above"; q10review=""; q10answer="b"; q11="In fifteenth-century Mass settings, the cantus firmus came from __________."; q11a="a single Gregorian chant"; q11b="different Gregorian chants"; q11c="secular song"; q11d="any of the above"; q11e="none of the above"; q11review=""; q11answer="d"; q12="A "head motive" can be defined as __________."; q12a="the motive that occurs in the tenor voice throughout a Mass"; q12b="the motive that occurs in the refrain of a chanson"; q12c="any motive that occurs in the top voice"; q12d="all of the above"; q12e="none of the above"; q12review=""; q12answer="e"; q13="Gilles Binchois was __________."; q13a="a Burgundian composer"; q13b="a music theorist"; q13c="one of the dukes of Burgundy"; q13d="a visitor who wrote about a Burgundian feast"; q13e="none of the above"; q13review=""; q13answer="a"; q14="The genres used by composers for special occasions were __________."; q14a="Mass and motet"; q14b="carols and burdens"; q14c="chansons and isorhythmic motets"; q14d="all of the above"; q14e="none of the above"; q14review=""; q14answer="c"; q15="Du Fay composed music in which of these genres?"; q15a="Mass Ordinary settings"; q15b="secular chansons"; q15c="isorhythmic motets"; q15d="all of the above"; q15e="none of the above"; q15review=""; q15answer="d"; q16="In what voice of a four-part texture does the cantus firmus normally occur in a cantus firmus Mass?"; q16a="discantus"; q16b="contratenor altus"; q16c="tenor"; q16d="contratenor bassus"; q16e="any of the above"; q16review=""; q16answer="c"; // End of hiding the script. -->