Medieval Music

What texture was early music?

• Polyphonic
• Monophonic
• Tutti
• Fuzzy

What does secular mean?

• non-religious
• religious
• pertaining to secu
• That you're popular

What is a melisma?

• one syllable per note
• a word
• An earthquake
• one syllable over multiple notes

A type of song the monks sang was:

• Sea Chanteys
• Gregorian Chant
• Nursery Rhymes
• Monkey songs

What language were chants in?

• Middle English
• German
• Olde English
• Latin

The three social classes were:

• Nobility, Kings, middle class
• Middle class, clergy, Nobility
• Clergy, church people, poor people
• peasants, nobility, clergy

Life during this time was:

• peaceful
• horrible
• wealthy 
• abundant

The __________ was the center of musical life

• church
• art
• king
• Roman Empire

All of the following are part of the Mass Ordinary except

• Agnus Dei
• Gloria
• Ave Maria
• Kyrie

In the Middle Ages, most artistic endeavors were inspired, encouraged, and paid for by the __________, and in each important town, the place where the arts were concentrated was the __________________.

• Vikings, fort
• nobility, castle
• church (Roman Catholic), cathedral
• Troubadours, streets