Quiz name: Concise History of Western Music, 4e
Chapter Number: 03
Student's name: jeffery morse
Student's email: jcmorse563@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Question: An early form of polyphony in which two voices move in parallel motion is known as:
Student answered: a) parallel organum
Correct answer is: a) parallel organum
Question: In Aquitanian polyphony, the lower voice, responsible for the melody, is called the:
Student answered: a) tenor
Correct answer is: a) tenor
Question: Composers began to draw motet tenors from sources other than Notre Dame clausulae after the:
Student answered: b) mid-thirteenth century
Correct answer is: b) mid-thirteenth century
Question: A style of organum in which both voices move in modal rhythm is called:
Student answered: b) discant
Correct answer is: b) discant
Question: In Aquitanian polyphony, what is discant?
Student answered: a) both parts move at the same rate, with one to three notes in the upper part for each note of the lower part
Correct answer is: a) both parts move at the same rate, with one to three notes in the upper part for each note of the lower part
Question: According to the Anonymous IV treatise, the Magnus liber organi was compiled by:
Student answered: c) Leoninus
Correct answer is: c) Leoninus
Question: A self-contained section of organum, setting a word or syllable from the chant and closing with a cadence is known as a:
Student answered: b) clausula
Correct answer is: b) clausula
Question: The treatise Musica enchiriadias provides instructions for avoiding what interval?
Student answered: c) augmented fourth
Correct answer is: c) augmented fourth
Question: According to anonymous treatises from the ninth century, what are two or more voices singing different notes according to given rules called?
Student answered: c) organum
Correct answer is: c) organum
Question: What source names Leoninus and Perotinus as the two creators of Notre Dame polyphony?
Student answered: b) the Anonymous IV treatise
Correct answer is: b) the Anonymous IV treatise
Question: Rules for composing in free organum are preserved in:
Student answered: c) Ad organum faciendum
Correct answer is: c) Ad organum faciendum
Question: A polyphonic setting in which all four voices sing the text together in essentially the same rhythm is called a:
Student answered: b) conductus
Correct answer is: b) conductus
Question: According to most music historians, the first polyphony to be read from notation rather than improvised was created in:
Student answered: a) Paris
Correct answer is: a) Paris
Question: The addition of newly written words to the upper voices of discant clausulae resulted in the development of the:
Student answered: a) motet
Correct answer is: a) motet
Question: Perotinus's Viderunt omnes is an example of:
Student answered: c) organum quadruplum
Correct answer is: c) organum quadruplum
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