Chapter Three Unit

In what century did Landini live?

the fourteenth

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Which famous poet lived at the same time and in the same city?

Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron

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What texture is featured in Landini's "Behold, Spring"?

polyphony

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In the medieval period there was very little secular music.

false

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What is a ballata?

a genre of secular song in the Middle Ages with origins in dance

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Landini was famous not only as a composer but as ______________

an organist and poet.

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A cadence is ____________________.

a stopping point, like the period at the end of a sentence.

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What is the meter?

triple

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True or false: This is a mostly syllabic text setting.

true

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The manuscript containing "Behold, Spring" is decorated in places with actual gold, beaten very thin.

true

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How did polyphony originate, in Europe?

Monks began to add a second line to chants.

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How did authorities react to early polyphony in the church?

They accepted it as a kind of commentary on a well-known line of chant.

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The ballata was the main form of secular music in the Middle Ages.

false

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Rhythmic freedom is easier in polyphonic than in monophonic music.

false

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What is it called when different voices sing the same note?

unison

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What do you hear at the points where the music pauses?

the two voices are singing the same note

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The music in the two halves is the same.

true

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In the word primavera ("spring"), on which syllable does the melisma fall?

on ma

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Which of the following is true?

Landini's secular output makes up about one-third of surviving Italian fourteenth-century music....