Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis II Exam || All Questions Answered Correctly.

Characteristics of Medieval Era correct answers Dominated by vocal music. Sacred Music: Gregorian Chant and Masses. Secular Music: for dance and entertainment (Troubadours/Trouvères) Gregorian Chant correct answers melodies that were free flowing with no distinct meter, melismatic, largely monophonic, and sung by unaccompanied voice or choir Organum correct answers an early form of polyphony in which voices are sung in parallel motion Masses correct answers important religious ritual and featured non-imitative polyphony Motet correct answers polyphonic music that was both sacred and secular; major musical form of the Medieval and Renaissance periods taht emerged from medieval organum and clausulae. Secular Music (Troubadours and Trouvères) correct answers drone accompaniment, regular meter, syncopations, polyphony, and harmony; by the end of Medieval era became the driving force of musical development Musical Importance of the Mass correct answers one of the most important services of the Roman Catholic Church; driving force of musical development in the Medieval and Renaissance eras. The liturgy of the Ordinary was most often set to music. By the Renaissance era; polyphony was common, musical notation had been refined, and complete masses were written by a single composer (e.g. Machaut's Mess de Notre Dame). By the twentieth century the genre declined. The Sections within the Ordinary of a Mass correct answers Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei Medieval Motet correct answers featured a tenor line derived from plainchant with one or more upper voices in French or Latin. The tenor vocal line usually had a short, repeated rhythmic pattern, while the upper voices had contrasting, lively upper voices. The texts of the upper voices were sometimes independent and in a different language from the tenor line Renaissance Motet correct answers Referred more to a genre of music than a certain form or structure; by 15th century the motet was known as a polyphonic setting of any sacred Latin text, not restricted to the liturgy. Composers of the Renaissance introduced imitation homophony, and four-part harmony to the motet. polyphony correct answers texture of music in which all voices or parts hold similar musical prominence or interest, several distinct melodic lines occurring at the same time; rhythm of each line moves independently of each other