MUSIC 9 Q1

​Medieval Music

By Angelbert Tabilog

Multiple Choice

One voice sings the melody, whilst the other sings at a fixed interval – this gives a parallel motion effect.

• Parallel organum

• Organum

• Melismatic organum

• Free organum

Multiple Choice

The longest period of music, covers 900 years.

• Renaissance    

• Medieval

• Baroque

• Classical

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It consisting of a single line of vocal melody, unaccompanied in free rhythm was one of the most common forms of medieval music.

• Gregory Chant

• Gregorian Chant

• Gregorio Chant 

• All of the above

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These were signs written above chants giving an indication of the direction of movement of pitch.

• flutes

• lyra

• dulcimer

• nuemes

Multiple Choice

The 2 voices move in both parallel motion and/or contrary motion.

• Organum

• Free organum   

• Melismatic organum

• Parallel organum

Multiple Choice

It was a crucial early technique, which explored polyphonic texture. It consisted of 2 lines of voices in varying heterophonic textures.

• Parallel organum

• Melismatic organum

• Organum

• Free organum

Multiple Choice

An accompanying part stays on a single note whilst the other part moves around above it.

• Free organum   

• Organum

• Parallel organum

• Melismatic organum

Multiple Choice

It was a pear-shaped instrument with three to five strings, held upright and played by stopping the strings from the side with the fingertips and fingernails.

Multiple Choice

It produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening.

Multiple Choice

It originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers".