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Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation 12. What is a choral motet?
1. [213] Protestant reformers tried to involve the
congregation resulting in new forms such as the 13. (220) What is cantional style? Why that term?
___________ in the Lutheran Church, the __________
in the Calvinist Church, and the ____________ in the
Anglican Church.
14. How many chorale melodies were there by 1600?
2. (212) What were the three branches and where did they
exist? 15. What is the doctrine of Calvin?
16. The Calvin Church was centered at _________. What
were the offshoots?
3. (213) Summarize Luther's religious beliefs in light of his
humantistic education.
17. What about music in the church?
4. He changed the language from _________ to
___________, but kept some of the Catholic liturgy and 18. What are metrical psalms? What is a psalter?
music.
5. (216) Luther's musical background included what? 19. (221) TQ: "Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur" as "Old
Hundreth" would be an example of what?
6. Why congregational singing?
20. T/F The different denominations held inviolate their
music and would not allow it to be contaminated by
7. Was a Lutheran liturgy strictly adhered to? influx from other congregations.
8. Describe the chorale in Luther's time. 21. (222) TQ: (SR) What is your impression of the SR
compared to Luther's SR a couple pages back?
9. (217) What are the four sources of chorales? Veni
Redemptor gentium to Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
is an example of what? (218) Victimae paschali laudes to 22. What are the three psalters mentioned?
Christ ist erstanden is an example of what? Innsbruck,
ich muss dich lassen to O Welt, ich muss dich lassen is
an example of what? Ein feste Burg is an example of
what? 23. Describe the polyphonic psalm settings.
24. (223) Who are the composers?
10. What were the two purposes of polyphonic settings?
25. (222) [You should be familiar with the religious/political
events in England.] What are the present-day names of
these churches?
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26. (224) What is the situation with "congregational music" 38. TQ: Gombert's five-voice motet Ave regina caelorum is
in the Church of England? cited. Where might that be performed? ("In church" is
not the answer I'm looking for.)
27. Who are the two composers? 39. Willaert was sensitive to text and music. He was
insistent on text underlay in printed music.
28. What is a Service? 40. (228) Why the Counter-Reformation or Catholic
Reformation?
29. What's the difference between great and short?
41. What effect did the Council of Trent (1545-63) have on
music?
30. What is an anthem?
42. (229) What is the name of the work that saved music in
31. What are the two types? the Catholic Church (just to prolong the myth)?
43. What are the mass types that he wrote?
32. (224) SR: Write the inventory.
44. (230) SR: What is Palestrina's last name? What did he
revise? List his works.
33. What were his Catholic works?
45. Who is the counterpoint authority?
46. What NCTs are allowed? Other qualities are step-wise
34. (225) What are William Byrd's Anglican works? motion; duple meter; consonance; sonority achieved by
voicing; clear text declamation; homophony for Gloria
and Credo; phrase begun by different voices; variety in
rhythm
35. What was the Catholic Church's stance during all this?
36. Who are the leading Flemish composers (1520-50)? 47. (233) Stile antico? What is the book? What would the
course be called if you studied Palestrina style?
37. (227) What are the stylistic traits of Catholic music of
this time?
48. What about tolerance of religious difference in Spain?
49. (234) Who are the Spanish composers?
50. What kind of masses did Victoria write?
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mostly __________. Readings relied on ____________.
51. (235) The _________ and _________ participated in
music through ________ing and _________ing, whether
it be for ___________ or ___________ purposes, all of 60. Te'amin was developed to indicate what? What is
which was accompanied by instruments, such as te'amin?
_______ and _______. (Note 1: Try to guess what I'm
thinking. Note 2: Here's an effort to introduce ethnic
music.)
61. What is the name of a synagogue cantor?
52. (236) What are the details of the first polyphonic vocal 62. Ashkenazi Jews of Germany drew on _______________
work published in the Americas? and ______________; Sephardic Jews of Spain drew on
_____________.
53. Central and eastern Europe was __________. Their 63. What happened in 1999?
music was from the ________________ tradition. The
leading composers were ___________ and
___________. 64. Religious music written then still continues today. It was
shared among religions and influenced other genres
(organ music, for example).
54. (237) The leading German composer of the late 65. (240) "To sing Ein' feste Burg or a Palestrina mass is still
Renaissance was ______________. The whole of the an act potent with meaning, even after 500 years. This
German composers were _ c _ e _ t _ c. should remind us that other pieces, which we now hear
simply as music, once carried equally strong
associations—associations that we can learn only by
55. A Franco-Flemish composer working in Germany was studying the historical circumstances from which they
_______________. How does he rate? emerged." This is a powerful statement!
56. Palestrina exemplified ___________ and ___________;
de Lassus, _____________ and _____________.
57. Note: What the author talks about on page 237 (Cum
essen parvulus) is known as word-painting (= to write
music that actually illustrates what the text is
describing). This is in contrast to Gombert (see p. 227,
the last five lines of the second paragraph).
58. (238) SR: What did de Lassus write? How many total?
What is the name of his motet collection? TQ: Do you
see the pretty picture? Is it safe to conclude that color
printing was available by c. 1600? BTW, penitential
means to be sorry for sins committed.
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