Quiz name: Concise History of Western Music, 4e Chapter Number: 03

Question: An early form of polyphony in which two voices move in parallel motion is known as:

Question: In Aquitanian polyphony, the lower voice, responsible for the melody, is called the:

Question: Composers began to draw motet tenors from sources other than Notre Dame clausulae after the:

Question: A style of organum in which both voices move in modal rhythm is called:

Question: In Aquitanian polyphony, what is discant?

Question: According to the Anonymous IV treatise, the Magnus liber organi was compiled by:

Question: A self-contained section of organum, setting a word or syllable from the chant and closing with a cadence is known as a:

Question: The treatise Musica enchiriadias provides instructions for avoiding what interval?

Question: According to anonymous treatises from the ninth century, what are two or more voices singing different notes according to given rules called?

Question: What source names Leoninus and Perotinus as the two creators of Notre Dame polyphony?

Question: Rules for composing in free organum are preserved in:

Question: A polyphonic setting in which all four voices sing the text together in essentially the same rhythm is called a:

Question: According to most music historians, the first polyphony to be read from notation rather than improvised was created in:

Question: The addition of newly written words to the upper voices of discant clausulae resulted in the development of the:

Question: Perotinus's Viderunt omnes is an example of: