MUSI 200 Week 2 Quiz

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Question 1                                                                                                                                         

The so-called "Dark Ages" were actually not devoid of development. Why?

Question options:

Pressure groups of Goths were spreading terror through learning in far-flung realms affecting nearly every known or important city center and regions surrounding them.

Languages were coalescing into a single unit that was shared with little variation over the known continents of the world.

Society was developing the basics of our present day understanding of music, art, architecture, literature, and politics.

Feudal society was taking root and sought to establish schools of music and higher learning.

Question 2                         

Saint Gregory the Great didn't actually compose the collection of Gregorian Chants. What did he do that identifies him with these plainchants?

Question options:

He had Charlemagne take over the publishing and distribution of the chants.

He recorded his favorite chants and sent the recordings to all of the monasteries to use in services.

None of the answers provided are correct.

He collected and codified the chants that were in use during his reign.

Question 3                         

Medieval instruments were what?

Question options:

cranked, struck, blown, and forced

bowed, driven, turned, and plucked

blown, struck, churned, and cranked

bowed, blown, plucked, and struck

Question 4

What were instruments NOT playing during the late Renaissance and early Baroque?

Question options:

Variation

Symphonic Poem, Techno, R&B

Ricercare, Canzona, Sonata

Prelude, Fantasia, Toccata

Question 5                         

"Sumer is icumen in" is a _______ and is remarkable because it was composed and notated at such an early time in history.

Question options:

ling

round

square

march

Question 6                         

Polyphony is created when voices move in what way in relation to each other?

Question options:

oblique, contrary, and parallel motion

parallel, forward, and reverse motion

pure, stylistic, and varied motion

oblique, contrary, and agreeable motion

Question 7                         

In ancient Greece, "mode" was a designation for what?

Question options:

The relationship of notes to a poem.

The relationship of whole and half-steps of the notes within a scale.

The relationship of notes to the instrument for which they were written.

The relationship of range of melody to its length resulting in a pure ratio.

Question 8                         

Which of the following is true about Perotinus?

Question options:

His music was never performed after his death.

He wrote a number of masses built upon preexisting plainchant compositions.

He wrote 500 masses.

He was known for writing compositions with monophonic textures.

Question 9                         

In the sixteenth century, what affected Venice?

Question options:

Patrons who demanded that musicians play from memory, thus instituting the first competitions of performers in the European world

Immense wealth

The growth of a major guild of organists who controlled music publishing

Operatic intrigue that sought to control all music making in the city and profit by it

Question 10

What was the Council of Trent?

Question options:

a discussion about Lord Trent

a popular band in Trent, England

a decree that only music with a sacred purpose should be played in churches

a document that formalized musical notation