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The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable
notation was composed - ✔✔during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly - ✔✔polyphonic
The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the -
✔✔motet
Beatriz de Dia was - ✔✔one of a number of women troubadours
Which of the following statement is NOT true of Renaissance music? -
✔✔Instrumental music became more important than vocal music
during the Renaissance
, Gregorian Chant is - ✔✔monophonic in texture
The word Alleluia is - ✔✔a Latinized form of the Hebrew word
hallelujah, is often used in Gregorian chants, may be translated as
"praise ye the Lord"
The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were - ✔✔the
office and the mass
The notation of troubadour and trouvere melodies does not indicate -
✔✔rhythm
Which of the following describes a difference between English and
Italian madrigals? - ✔✔A lighter and more humorous tone
The Renaissance may be described as an age of - ✔✔exploration and
adventure, curiosity and individualism, the "rebirth" of human creativity
A cappella refers to - ✔✔unaccompanied choral music
Secular music in the fourteenth century - ✔✔became more important
than sacred music, included drinking songs and pieces in which bird