Music Content Knowledge 5113 Praxis performance Exam Questions with Verified Answers 2024

Music Content Knowledge 5113 Praxis performance Exam Questions with Verified Answers 2024 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 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