music history final exam

there is little information about this early music beyond writings 

• baroque
• classical 
• romantic 
• opera 

____-is music with no strict meter or accompaniment, sung by a single voice or unison choir 

• plainsong 
• parallel organum 
• score 
• neumes 

During this era, the church assumed a leadership role in most fields, from politics to the arts

• classical 
• baroque
• medieval 
• romantic 

During the Middle Ages, Western music was _____.

• polyphonic 
• plain 
• monophonic 
• art 

_____ are markings over or under the text to signal pitch changes.

• notes 
• scores
• drawings 
• neumes

"Hymn to St.John the Baptist"

• classical 
• medieval 
• romantic 
• baroque 

rebirth and revival of human creativity 

• renaissance 
• opera 
• classical 
• medieval 

music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text 

• monophonic
• word painting 
• art song 
• polyphonic 

"As Vesta Was Descending" 

• Classical 
• Renaissance 
• Baroque 
• Romantic 

two main forms of sacred music in the Renaissance 

• motet & mass 
• mass & polyphonic 
• polyphonic & monophonic 
• monophonic & motet