SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN MUSIC QUARTER 1
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Direction/s: Read the statement carefully and encircle the letter that corresponds the correct answer.
1. Which of the following is the characteristic of troubadour music?
a. use of Neume notation
b. usually based on Latin liturgy
c. tells of chivalry and courtly love
d. monophonic, modal, and free meter

2. The following statements are characteristics of a Gregorian chant, EXCEPT.
a. Plainsong
b. Free in Tempo
c. polyphonic Texture
d. Used Neume Notation

3. Most of the music’s text was set to melismatic. Melismatic means _________.
a. One note set to one syllable
b. Few notes set to one syllable
c. One note to many syllables
d. Many notes to one syllable

4. The event that paved the way for a wide distribution of Renaissance Period’s compositions.
a. The invention of printing.
b. Martin -Luther’s Protestant Reformation.
c. The invention of compass that enhance navigation.
d. The discovery of earth’s actual position in the solar system.

5. Which statement is NOT true about the Renaissance Period?
a. Humanism was the focus of the Renaissance Period.
b. Mass and Madrigal are the two Classification of Renaissance Music.
c. In the Renaissance period, music education is a symbol of social status.
d. Troubadour music is the most important secular form during Renaissance Period.
6. Which of the following is TRUE about musical improvisation?
a. It is a long preparatory act of doing something.
b. It is an act of planning and creating a new performance.
c. Readiness for a well-planned task, activity, or performances.
d. Performance given extempore without planning or preparation.

7. In the Medieval period, the first detailed information on improvisation technique appears in____________.
a. 18th century
b. 19th century
c.20th century
d. 21st century

8. This is the most important kind of unwritten music before the baroque period.
a. Agnus Dei
b. Cantus firmus
c. Organum
d. Sanctus and Benedictus
9. The main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the organ and the________.
a. accordion
b. clavichord
c. harpsichord
d. piano

10. Which of the following statement is TRUE of the Renaissance Period?
A. Renaissance is known for the Middle Ages.
B. Musical activity gradually shifted from the church to the court.
C. Secular music in unknown during Renaissance period.
D. Ornamentation began to be brought more under the control of Renaissance composers.

11. Which performance may alternate between groups, or between a group and soloist?
a. Chant
b. Monophony
c. liturgical music
d. Polyphony
12. It is a monophonic vocal works and performed during various Roman Catholic ceremonies.
a. Liturgical music
b. Gregorian chant
c. Kyrie eleison
d. Gloria in Excelsis Deo
13. It came from an Italian term which means “ In the Manner of Chapel.
a. Monophonic
b. Madrigal
c. A Capella
d. Baroque
14. It is the sacred music of the medieval period.
a. Liturgical Music
b. Troubadours
c. Madrigal
d. Mass
15. The following statements are the characteristics of the early music of the middle age, Except.
a. Consist of liturgical music and sacred music.
b. The instrumental music in the 16th century flourished rapidly.
c. Development of polyphonic music during Renaissance period.
d. Development of orchestra to accompany the Gregorian
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