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WorksheetsCH 6 Part 4 Study Guide: Later Medieval Polyphony
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What happened to polyphonic music during the thirteenth century?
It became more and more closely linked with church services.
It became more and more popular as middle-class family entertainment.
It became more and more removed from church services.
It became more and more monophonic.
The medieval polyphonic form that resulted from the addition of texts to the upper parts while retaining the Gregorian chant in the lower part is called the
motet.
Mass.
madrigal.
estampie.
The meaning of the text of “Sumer Is Icumen In” involves
admiration for a saint.
a farewell to a departing love.
contentment in love.
celebration of the arrival of summer.
Music of the Notre Dame school was later referred to as
ars nova.
ars antiqua.
the new school.
the isorhythmic school.
In Western music, the musical style in the period after 1300 was called
plainsong.
early experimental polyphony.
the first flowering of polyphony at Notre Dame.
ars nova.
One of the chief characteristics of the late medieval motet is
surprising cadences.
the jarring use of dissonance.
intricate and complex rhythmic combinations.
smooth, regular rhythms and brief melodies.
In the ars nova, which genre was increasingly intricate, using complex rhythm patterns?
alba
motet
estampie
plainchant
An outstanding composer of the French ars nova was
Guillaume de Machaut.
Pérotin.
Hildegard of Bingen.
Pope Gregory I.
Guillaume de Machaut was not only a composer but also a
dancer.
prince.
lawyer for Donald Trump
poet.
“Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” is a
motet.
chanson.
sequence.
troubadour song.
The text of “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” involves
life at court in medieval Europe.
chivalric love.
God’s love and mercy to humankind.
honoring a saint.
The polyphony that occurs in “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” features long melismas on many syllables, a feature that looks back to
the motet.
organum.
Gregorian chant.
the estampie.
