EBHS Music Technology 839
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Today’s Date 1/30/13
Music Its Role And Importance In Our Lives
Chapter 17 Test
I. Key Terms
Directions: In the space under the sentence, write the word or words in BOLD that best
complete each statement. (30 points)
1. Music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text is called
Your Response:
2. Is a method of assigning a syllabic name to each tone of the scale.
Your Response:
3. Layered dynamic levels within a composition are called
Your Response:
4. Polyphonic choral composition based in sacred texts are called
Your Response:
5. Is compositional method in which two voice parts sing the same melody, one a perfect
fourth or fifth higher than the other.
Your Response:
6. Markings over or under the text to signal pitch changes are called
Your Response:
7. Is music with no strict meter or accompaniment, sung by a single voice or unison choir.
Your Response:
8. The term refers to written notation.
Your Response:
9. An accomplishment consisting of harpsichord sounding the chords and a viola da gamba
reinforcing the bass line is called
Your Response:
10. The term means a rebirth and revival of human creativity
Your Response:
II. Main Ideas
Directions: Match each item listed with the correct musical period in the table below. Write the
answer IN BOLD of the period after the question. Musical periods may be used more than once.
(30 points)
Select The Correct
A. Medieval
Musical Period
B. Renaissance
Enter Your Answer
C. Early Baroque
In Your Response
D. Late Baroque
11. "As Vesta Was Descending" by Thomas Weelkes.
Your Response:
12. Gregorian chant, plainsong named for Pope Gregory.
Your Response:
13. Treatise on Harmony by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Your Response:
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Chapter 17 Test
EBHS Music Technology 839
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Today’s Date 1/30/13
14. The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi.
Your Response:
15. Pope Marcellus Mass by Palestrina.
Your Response:
16. "La Bourrée" from Terpsichore by Praetorius.
Your Response:
17. Fugue No.16 in G minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Your Response:
18. "Prendes I Garde" by Guillaume d' Amiens.
Your Response:
19. "Tu se' morta" from Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi.
Your Response:
20. "Estampie," a dance.
Your Response:
III. Making Musical Connections
Directions: Read each statement carefully. Answer in BOLD True or False. (15 points)
21. The word Fugue is derived from a German word meaning "chase."
Your Response:
22. Secular music is the foundation of western classical music.
Your Response:
23. Guido of Arezzo devised a notation system based on a five-line staff.
Your Response:
24. The Greeks established the octave as the basic mathematical unit in music.
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25. Motets on sacred texts and secular madrigals were composed during the Renaissance.
Your Response:
III. Critical Thinking
Directions: Answer the following items in paragraph form, using complete sentences. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper. (25 points)
26. Trace the transition in harmonic texture from monophonic to polyphonic and later
homophonic texture.
27. How did the sacred and secular music of the medieval period differ?
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EBHS Music Technology 839
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Today’s Date 1/30/13
V. Glencoe Chapter 16 : Student Online Self Check Quiz Results
Directions:
1. Go to http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078297567/student_view0/chapter1/
2. At the left of the page select Chapter Activities / Select Chapter / Take the Test.
3. Submit Answers / Important! Select format as text. Do not select HTML.
4. Email the reults to your GMAIL account.
5. Open your GMAIL account, open your results, copy and paste your results under this
….line. Enter your score in Your Online Quiz Score at bottom right corner of this page.
Copy And Paste Your Test Results Here
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