Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 25

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Question #1
A heterophonic effect is many people singing
A.   None of the answers shown here.
B.   slight variants of the same melody simultaneously.
C.   the same melody simultaneously.
D.   different melodies simultaneously.
Question #2
A religious choral composition in English designed for congregational singing, though it could also be sung in the home or among friends, is called
A.   a motet.
B.   an oratorio.
C.   an anthem.
D.   a psalm.
Question #3
Where did William Billings live and work?
A.   Paris
B.   Boston
C.   Philadelphia
D.   London
Question #4
Billings adhered strictly to European compositional methods.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #5
Billings’s David’s Lamentation is complex and challenging to sing.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
Colonists in New England participated in congregational hymn singing.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #7
Conservative Puritan leaders
A.   sponsored polyphonic singing schools.
B.   believed polyphonic singing was scandalous.
C.   fully embraced congregational polyphonic singing.
D.   All possible answers.
Question #8
In what language is Billings’s David’s Lamentation sung?
A.   French
B.   German
C.   Italian
D.   English
Question #9
Singing schools in Colonial America began in the
A.   1720s.
B.   1520s.
C.   1620
D.   1420s.
Question #10
Sometimes Billings’s songs mixed sacred texts and political references.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #11
The intent of the process of lining-out was to create unison congregational singing.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #12
The practice of lining-out allowed singers who did not read music notation to participate in congregational music-making.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #13
The seventeenth-century system in which New England church leaders sang each line of a psalm and the congregation repeated it back is called
A.   homophony.
B.   chant.
C.   syllabic.
D.   lining-out.
Question #14
The text of David’s Lamentation recalls King David’s grief upon losing
A.   his brother.
B.   his wife.
C.   his son Absalom.
D.   his cousin.
Question #15
What is the form of Billings’s David’s Lamentation?
A.   A-B-A
B.   A-A-B
C.   A-B-B
D.   bar form
Question #16
What is the genre of Billings’s David’s Lamentation?
A.   oratorio
B.   opera
C.   anthem
D.   cantata
Question #17
What is the predominant texture of Billings’s David’s Lamentation?
A.   monophony
B.   homophony
C.   imitative polyphony
D.   non-imitative polyphony
Question #18
What system did the Puritans employ for singing psalms in church?
A.   shape-note
B.   lining-out
C.   da capo
D.   heterophony
Question #19
When many people are singing the same melody at the same time, but each singer is modifying the tune slightly, the resulting texture is known as
A.   melismatic.
B.   polyphony.
C.   heterophony.
D.   homophony.
Question #20
Which of the following are William Billings’s contributions to American music history?
A.   All possible answers.
B.   contributing songs to the cause of independence from Great Britain
C.   cultivating a tradition of American psalmody
D.   emphasizing the institutional importance of music

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