05/11 5. Medieval and Renaissance Music Online Quiz Questions

Which statement best distinguishes the texture of plainchant from the texture of organum?

Plainchant is normally organized by major-minor tonality and a regular beat.

What term names the early polyphonic practice of adding a newly composed part to a preexisting chant?

In music history, what does a musical setting of the Mass Ordinary represent?

By the Renaissance, the motet generally became a sacred polyphonic work using a single Latin text.

What year does the material give for the composition of Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo virtutum?

Which developments are associated with the fourteenth-century Ars Nova? Select all correct choices.

Which description best characterizes the sacred polyphonic style associated with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?

Which statements accurately describe medieval and Renaissance notation or performance practice? Select all correct choices.

Explain how Western European music developed from medieval chant toward Renaissance polyphony. In your answer, compare texture and rhythm, and discuss at least two Renaissance techniques or genres that show how composers refined polyphonic writing.

Which work is one of the earliest complete polyphonic settings of the Mass Ordinary by a single named composer?

A medieval sacred song presents one unaccompanied melodic line, with no simultaneous independent vocal parts. Which texture best describes it?

True or false: By the Renaissance, a motet generally used a single Latin sacred text.

A composer wants to create an early polyphonic work by preserving a chant as a foundation and adding another vocal part above it. Which practice is being used?

What is the name for the portions of the Roman Catholic Mass whose words remain largely consistent from day to day?

Which development is most characteristic of the fourteenth-century Ars Nova?

According to the material, in what year was Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo virtutum composed?

A Renaissance composition begins with one voice presenting a short melodic idea. Other voices enter one after another with related versions of that idea. What technique is this?