Music 101 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
Madrigal - Answer-... a form of Secular Music, also known as vocal chamber music,
written for 4-5 parts, one singer to a part, usually, but not always performed without
instrumental doubling or accompaniment, sung in language of origin (not Latin), text
topics: love, nature, celebrations, secular meanings, rhythmic, regular meter, dance-like,
harmonic nature: more variety, Madrigals were especially popular in Italy and England,
performed at court events/royalty, learned society
vernacular - Answer-Everyday language used in a country or region.
secular - Answer-Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or
spiritual basis
Not spiritual
madrigalism - Answer-A particularly evocative-or, if used in a disparaging sense, a
thoroughly conventional-instance of TEXT DEPICTION or WORD-PAINTING; so called
because of the prominent role of word-painting in MADRIGALS.
word painting - Answer-expressing specific words and ideas of the text with different
musical elements like dynamics, rhythms, tempo, ect.
part book - Answer-a volume that contains the music of one voice part and only one
voice part
Must purchase the other part books to have complete set.
Jacques Arcadelt - Answer-From Netherlands, working in Italy. Very popular book of
madrigals, 58 editions. "Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno"
Luca Marenzio - Answer-Italian
"Solo e pensoso"
Carlo Gesualdo - Answer-Italian nobleman
Murderer
"Lo parto e non piu dissi"
Thomas Weelkes - Answer-English composer
Lived during the age of Shakespeare
Sometimes wrote pieces in honor of Queen Elizabeth 1.
Career needed rather badly
"As vesta was descending"
Lied (lieder) - Answer-German song
, Romantic lied - Answer-Poems that are put to music
Franz Shubert - Answer-Most famous composer of German Lieds
660 settings of poetry to music
Synthesizes verbal and musical components of the lied
Wrote "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the spinning wheel)
Winterreise - Answer-Winter's Journey 1827
24 poems by Milhelm Muller
Musical setting by Franz Schubert
Depressing, angst song about a failed summer love
Song cycle - Answer-Multiple songs form a set
Gottfried Von Herder - Answer-Believed that folk was the antidote to artificial, "Learned
culture"
Collected song lyrics to write a book
"Volkslieder" (folk songs)
Francis James Child - Answer-Harvard professor
Collected songs only existing before the printing press
Mostly interested in english ballads
Ballad - Answer-a term used for a short popular or traditional song that normally has a
narrative element (a plot)
strophic - Answer-repeated melody
Buell Kazie - Answer-Sang "Butcher Boy"
Bonafide old English ballad
Lyrics tell a story about a girl who commits suicide
Strong vernacular accent
Lomax family - Answer-Father and song that collected cowboy songs
Both recorded songs themselves and preformed field recordings
Leadbelly - Answer-Huddie Leadbetter
Prisoner of Angola
Prison in LA is moved to NY by the Lomax families
Was played to be more criminalistic than he really is
Authenticity - Answer-Authenticity means establishing the user's identity beyond
reasonable doubt. Authenticating the user is crucial in many situations, particularly in
business and legal matters. A simple example of authentication is user login onto a
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