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The Renaissance saw the rise of amateur musicians and home music-making.
✓ True
Of the following, which is NOT a major literary landmark of the Middle Ages?
✓ Cervantes's Don Quixote
The early exploration of the New World took place during the Renaissance.
✓ True
Of the following, which does NOT represent the thinking of the Renaissance?
✓ an exclusively religious orientation
Which historical event did NOT take place in the Renaissance?
✓ the writing of the Magna Carta
Hildegard's Alleluia, O virga mediatrix has a neumatic text setting with some melismas.
✓ True
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The motet differs from organum with its emphasis on triads.
✓ False
The form of Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is A-A-B.
✓ False
In the early Middle Ages, music was often written in fixed patterns of long and short
notes known as rhythmic modes.
✓ True
In what part of the liturgy does the Alleluia occur?
✓ Mass Proper
Which of the following was NOT a subject reflected in the poems of the troubadours
and trouvères?
✓ the rebirth of classical learning
Machaut's chanson Puis qu'en oubli is a ballade for three voices.
✓ False
Sumer is icumen in is one of the earliest examples of secular polyphony.
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✓ True
Since Machaut was a cleric in the church, he wrote only sacred music.
✓ False
The medieval ancestor of the modern trombone is:
✓ the sackbut
What is a cantus firmus?
✓ A fragment of Gregorian chant or a secular tune used as the foundation of a
polyphonic Mass.
The Renaissance motet became a sacred form with a single Latin text.
✓ True
Of the following, who was a leader in the Protestant Reformation?
✓ Martin Luther
The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance
was called:
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