Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis II Exam with Complete Solutions 100% Verified Characteristics of Medieval Era - Correct Answer Dominated by vocal music. Sacred Music: Gregorian Chant and Masses. Secular Music: for dance and entertainment (Troubadours/Trouvères) Gregorian Chant - Correct Answer melodies that were free flowing with no distinct meter, melismatic, largely monophonic, and sung by unaccompanied voice or choir Organum - Correct Answer an early form of polyphony in which voices are sung in parallel motion Masses - Correct Answer important religious ritual and featured non-imitative polyphony Motet - Correct Answer 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 Answer 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 Answer 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 Answer Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei Medieval Motet - Correct Answer 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 1 / 2
Renaissance Motet - Correct Answer 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 Answer 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 homophony - Correct Answer several voices or parts, but melodic interest is reduced to a single voice or part, all other voices or parts support the main melody as an accompaniment and mover together in rhythmic likeness; any form of melody and accompaniment texture monophony - Correct Answer centers on a single melodic line, does not have supplemental accompaniment parts; a single line of melody embodies the entire work itself e.g. plainchant Characteristics of the Baroque Period - Correct Answer music stylistically ornate and heavily ornamented; during this period tonality was established, counterpoint was invented, and the size, range, and complexity of orchestrations were expanded; linear bass line; musical pieces with one affect/or general sound idea Characteristics of the Classical Period - Correct Answer prominence of homophony, featured a slower harmonic rhythm than the ornate Baroque music that featured a linear bass line; emphasized a natural melody above textural complexity, music had clear phrases and period structure; pieces now stylistically contrasted within themselves, rather than having one general sound idea Nationalism - Correct Answer the movement that was a facet of the Romantic era during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in which music evoked national or regional character of a place; composers used folk music in their compositions either as a direct quote or as a framework for the composition of melodies and rhythms that resemble folk music of the area Nationalistic Composers of Russia - Correct Answer Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimsky- Korsakov
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