People's Music 2 Lutheran Chorale
TRUE/FALSE
1. Martin Luther encouraged hymn singing in the vernacular.
ANS: T REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
2. The Czech reformer Jan Hus was the first to encourage vernacular hymn singing by the congregation.
ANS: T
REF: People's Music 2, "Music For the People: Congregational Hymns", pg. 72
3. “Ein Feste’ Burg” is based on the lyrics of a famous war song.
ANS: F
REF: People's Music 2, "Music For the People: Congregational Hymns", pg. 72
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Martin Luther grew up hearing the Mass sung in a. Greek d. Latin b. Portuguese e. the vernacular c. German
ANS: D REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
2. Martin Luther composed a. only the Kyrie sections of the Mass d. dance music b. hymns and hymn tunes for congregational e. several polyphonic settings of the Ordinary singing of the Mass c. chansons and rondeaus
ANS: B REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
3. Hanas Sachs a. was one of the first football players to sack d. Was the lead singer in Luther’s choir a quarterback b. was a Meistersinger who probably wrote a e. played the lute for many of the melody on which “Ein Feste Burg” is based Reformation services c. Was a famous Catholic priest who chanted in German instead of Latin
ANS: B REF: People's Music 2, "Music From the People", pg. 72
4. Luther’s first version of “Ein’ Feste Burg” was a. extremely polyphonic and complex d. not well received b. monophonic e. incorporated into the Proper of the Mass c. set to long melismatic passages
ANS: B REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' Feste Burg ist unser Gott", pg. 72
5. Hymns like “Ein’ Feste Burg” are a kind of a. popular music d. psalm b. soul music e. liturgical joke c. early rock music
ANS: A REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' Feste burg ist unser Gott", pg. 73
6. ***Sound File EV_PM2_Q06.mp3 attatched*** This part of the chorale is in ______texture a. ironic d. heterophonic b. polyphonic e. Isophonic c. monophonic
ANS: C [EV_PM1_Q06.mp3 is in the Listening Items for Tests section of Instructor Companion Site. Go to
www.cengage.com/music to find the Instructor Companion Site for MUSIC.]
REF: People's Music 2, "Listen Up!", pg. 73
7. ***Sound File EV_PM2_Q07.mp3 attatched*** In this segment, the voices sing the lyrics a. together at the same time d. in Latin b. at different times, like the polyphonic e. without any sense of rhythm at all settings of the time c. in imitation
ANS: B [EV_PM2_Q07.mp3 is in the Listening Items for Tests section of Instructor Companion Site. Go to
www.cengage.com/music to find the Instructor Companion Site for MUSIC.]
REF: People's Music 2, "Listen Up!", pg. 73
8. ***Sound File EV_PM2_Q08.mp3 attatched*** In this passage, ______, have been added and ______are observed at the end of each phrase. a. drums, cymbal crashes d. accents, crescendos b. instruments, pauses e. melismas, cadenzas c. voices, instrumental interludes
ANS: B [EV_PM2_Q08.mp3 is in the Listening Items for Tests section of Instructor Companion Site. Go to
www.cengage.com/music to find the Instructor Companion Site for MUSIC.]
REF: People's Music 2, "Listen Up!", pg. 73
COMPLETION
1. The ______reform movement swept sixteenth-century northern Europe.
ANS: Protestant
REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
2. Carol-like religious songs and secular __ songs were among Luther’s sources and models.
ANS: folk
REF: People's Music 2, "Music From the People", pp. 71-72
3. Luther’s “Ein’ Feste Burg” is a ______.
ANS: chorale
REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' Feste Burg ist unser Gott", pg. 72
MATCHING
a. Meistersinger e. “Ein’ Feste Burg ist unser Gott.” b. Hans Sachs f. strophic c. chorale g. John Wesley d. Martin Luther h. syllabic
1. English reformer who led the Methodist movement
2. German lyric poet
3. Meistersinger who originally write the tune to Luther’s famous chorale
4. a Lutheran hymn designed for congregational singing
5. father of the Reformation and of congregational hymn singing
6. form in which multiple stanzas of text are set to the same melody
7. setting the text as one syllable per note
8. translates as “A Mighty Fortress is our God”
1. ANS: G
REF: People's Music 2, "Music For the People: Congregational Hymns", pg. 72
2. ANS: A REF: People's Music 2, "Music From the People", pg. 72
3. ANS: B REF: People's Music 2, "Music From the People", pg. 72
4. ANS: C REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott", pg. 72
5. ANS: D REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
6. ANS: F REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' Feste Burg ist unser Gott", pg. 73
7. ANS: H REF: People's Music 2, "Ein' Feste Burg ist unser Gott", pg. 72
8. ANS: E REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", pg. 71
ESSAY
1. Why did Luther’s new form of worship music seem so inviting to the common man?
ANS: It was in vernacular, not Latin Syllabic setting of the text, no melismatic passages Homophonic or monophonic texture pauses at the end of phrases based on familiar tunes smoothly flowing melodies
more accessible to the common man
REF: People's Music 2, "Music For the People: Congregational Hymns", pg. 72
2. How was Luther especially qualified to bring a new kind of music into his liturgical reform?
ANS: p. 7 he sang well and understood what was easy to sing he was a performer on several instruments he understood music theory he turned to secular songs for inspiration and familiar tunes, but admired the polyphonic works of his day
He knew the liturgy and scripture
REF: People's Music 2, "Luther and the Hymn", "Music From the People", and "Music For the People: Congregational Hymns", pp. 71-72