Author Question: The opening of the excerpt Soul, Penitent from Hildegard's Play of Virtues is in which mode? a. ... (Read 348 times)

123654777 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

The opening of the excerpt Soul, Penitent from Hildegard's Play of Virtues is in which mode?

a. Dorian, beginning and cadencing on the note D
b. Mixolydian, beginning and cadencing on the note E
c. Phrygian, beginning and cadencing on the note F
d. Lydian, beginning and cadencing on the note G

Question 2

The texture in Hildegard's play was

a. monophonic, allowing performers to project the text with great clarity.
b. homophonic, causing the text to be lost in the harmony.
c. heterophonic, making Satan appear even more frightening.
d. very different from the texture of the Gregorian chants.