Unit 2: Middle Ages and Renaissance

What dates were the Middle Ages?

• 450-1450

• 600-1200

• 1400-1750

• 360-1350

What does A Capella mean?

• Only using guitar

• Only using strings and woodwind family instruments

• Without instruments

• Only using lute

Music manuscripts didn't indicate?

• Tempo

• Dynamics

• Rhythm

• All of the above

The Gregorian chant was all of these EXCEPT:

• No longer common after it was forbidden

• It was the most common form of secular music

• It was named after Pope Gregory I

• It was a monophonic melody set to Latin text

What were the church modes?

• Major and minor scales with 7 different tones

• Motet and mass

• Different modes of secular music

• 14th century music

The first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived

• Hildegard of Bingen

• Beatriz, Countess of Did

• Guilliame de Machaut

• Josquin Desprez

From what part of France were the troubadours?

• Northern

• Southern

Who composed secular music?

• French nobles

• Poet-musicians

• Jongleurs

What part of France are Trouvères from?

• Southern

• Northern

Who performed secular music?

• Jongleurs

• Traveling minstrels

• Poet musicians