Unit 7: Choral Music Throughout the Ages

"Contrapuntal, toccata, fugue, highly ornamented, polychoral"

Which composer denote the characteristic era mentioned?

• Beethoven

• Vivaldi

• Haydn

• Ockeghem

Below is true for the Medieval Period except...

• Monophonic Chant

• The text often in Latin and some French

• The Era of Vitry and Machaut

• Music printed in 1501 (Italy)

The composers of the Renaissance Era include

• Giovanni Palestrina

• Josquin des Prez

• William Byrd

• Francesco Landini

"Treulich geführt" from Lohengrin is composed by Richard Wagner. What period does Wagner come from?

• Baroque

• Classical

• Romantic

• 20th Century

Leonin's Pascha Nostrum composed in an Organum with one of the voices is called Tenor. What is the other voice called?

Secular music flourished in 1100 - 1300 CE. Choose the characteristics of secular music during this medieval period.

• Perform for public only

• Uses vernacular French, German, Spanish, English

• Music performs mainly Acappella

• Notable secular composers are Bernart of Ventadorn, Beatrice of Dia, and Leonin

This Era is known with the rebirth of thinking and creativity

• 450 - 1450 CE

• 1450 - 1600 CE

• 1600 - 1750 CE

• 1750 - 1820 CE

Which one voicing group used by Monteverdi in his "Sì ch'io vorrei morire"?

• Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass, Descanto

• Supra, Altus, Tenuto, Bassus, Spinto

• Cantus, Alto, Quinto, Tenor, Basso

• Canto, Altus, Quinto, Tenore, Basso

"Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison" are the words used in Franz Schubert's Mass in G Major. Where do the lyrics derive from?

• Liturgical Mass

• The Gospel

• New Testament

• Old Testament

In the song composed by Thomas Weelkes in the Renaissance Period and performed by Voces8, what did Vesta do when she descended the hill?

• To meet with Diana

• To praise Queen Oriana

• To spy on Queen Oriana

• To watch over Diana