Author Question: Modal polyphony in the Renaissance had emphasized chords that were a ____ apart, but the new tonal ... (Read 63 times)

kodithompson · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Modal polyphony in the Renaissance had emphasized chords that were a ____ apart, but the new tonal polyphony of the Baroque tended to construct chords upon notes of the scale that were a ____ apart.

A) second or third; fourth or fifth
B) fourth or fifth; second or third

Question 2

At the start of his career with the Esterhazy family, Haydn was

A) given the best chamber in the palace and asked to compose beautiful music to be played there

B) a servant who slept in the stable while composing symphonies and string quartets

C) already famous as a composer and performer

D) in jail because he had cut off a classmates pigtail

E) only allowed to composer music for the Mass