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How many centuries do the Middle Ages cover?
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3rd - 12th
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5th - 15th
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12th - 15th
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1st - 21st
Who controlled the artists in the Middle Ages?
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The goverment.
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Kings.
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The church.
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The people.
What is the name for religious music in the Middle Ages?
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Plainsong.
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Cantiga a Santa María.
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Plainchant.
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Love song.
Which of these characteristics belong to the Gregorian chant?
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Monophonic
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Vocal music
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It has got time signature.
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It has got measure.
Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who...
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composed all the chants currently in use.
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was credited by medieval legend with having created it.
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had his name put on the first printed edition.
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wrote the texts for the chants.
The church modes are...
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different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only six different tones.
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different from the major and minor scales in that they consist of only five different tones.
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like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones.
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completely different from any other form of scale.
The aristocratic composer-poets of northern France were the...
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troubadours.
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trouvères.
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Meistersinger.
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jongleurs.
Love was a main topic of secular song among all except the...
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troubadours.
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trouvères.
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Minnesinger.
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All of the above sang about love.
Secular song in Germany...
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was written in French, the language of the nobility because of the Norman Conquest.
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was influenced by the music of the troubadours but was written in German.
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was written in Latin only.
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was never written down.
In which language did the troubadours write and sing songs?
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Latin.
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Occitan (langue d’Oc).
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Old French (langue d’oïl).
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Galician-Portuguese.
Jongleurs were...
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travelling entertainers who juggled as well as sang.
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female troubadours.
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students who sang secular songs in Latin.
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vielle players hired for their virtuoso skills.
Where are Canticles of Holy Mary from?
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France.
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Germany.
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Spain.
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England.
What language were the Canticles of Holy Mary written in?
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Latin.
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Occitan (langue d’Oc).
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Galician-Portuguese.
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Old French (langue d’oïl).
In what period were the Canticles of Holy Mary written?
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Renaissance age.
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the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio.
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Baroque age.
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Classical age.
The theme of the Cantigas is...
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love.
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life.
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the Virgin Mary.
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religion.
How many Santa Maria Cantigas remain?
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180
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1580
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420
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415
The earliest surviving treatises and examples of polyphonic music date from the ... century.
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ninth
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tenth
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twelfth
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thirteenth
The chant melody that served as the foundation for a polyphonic composition is commonly called its...
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cantus firmus.
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vox organalis.
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discant.
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perfection.
The first composer of polyphonic music whose name we know was...
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Franco of Cologne.
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Léonin.
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Pérotin.
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Pierre de la Croix.
A style of organum in which both voices move in modal rhythm is called...
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parallel.
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discant.
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florid.
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modal.
The Ars Nova, or new art, of the fourteenth century differed from older music in that...
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a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern.
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the subjects were all secular.
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there was no syncopation.
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the music emphasized homophonic texture.
The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was...
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written for three voices without instrumental accompaniment.
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written for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
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the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer.
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all of the above.
The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was...
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Paris.
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Rome.
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Reims.
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London.
The foremost composer of fourteenth-century France was...
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Guillaume de Machaut
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Charles V
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Perotin
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