1.
Match the Gothic architectural innovation to its effect. The flying buttress ______.
○
provided external support that allowed for taller buildings with thinner
walls
2.
Which city was the center of a vibrant new style of polyphony during the late 12
th
and early 13
th
centuries?
○
Paris
3.
What best describes this selection from the third section of Léonin's
Viderunt
omnes
?
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(c) polyphony
4.
How do we know that the anonymous first composers of Western polyphony
were educated church clerics?
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Because the new music required notation
5.
The composer Léonin likely held what position or title?
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Priest
6.
A few centuries after Hildegard of Bingen composed her visionary chants, a
radically different type of music — polyphony — was developing.
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False
7.
How is this excerpt from Pérotin's
Viderunt omnes
best characterized?
○
Both (a) and (c)
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(a) chant style, then organum style
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(b) block chords in upper voices
8.
Match the Gothic architectural innovation to its effect. The ribbed vault ______.
○
required less interior structural support, making possible more stained
glass windows
9.
Léonin's practice of taking existing musical material and layering his own
complementary music against it is similar to the common practices of jazz
improvisation in the 20
th
and 21
st
centuries.
○
True
10.
Which term describes the practice of setting musical lines against each other —
literally "note against note"?
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Counterpoint
11.
Match the Gothic architectural innovation to its effect. The pointed arch _______.
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redistributed interior weight, so as seemingly to defy gravity
