Music History Antiquity - Renaissance

What were musical instruments first used for?

• Signaling

• Fun

• Music

• Religious Purposes

Which instruments were most useful for communication?

• Strings

• Horns

• Drums

• Flutes

What are ways we still use music for signaling and communication?

• Telephone ring

• Entertainment while doing chores

• Car/Boat horns

• Curfew sirens

The Middle Ages is also known as what?

• Classical Period

• Religious Period

• Medieval Period

• Gregorian Period

During the Middle Ages, music was primarily used for:

• Entertainment

• Religious reasons

• Nobility feasts

• Secular reasons

Plain song is...

• Songs created by minstrels

• Percussion instruments

• Four line staves that square notes were written on

• A single melody with words in the Latin language

A minstrel was...

• A monk who wrote songs

• A musician who traveled from castle to castle singing

• A man who sang in the church choir

Scared music was the natural development of

• Gregorian Chant

• Neumes

• Plainsong

• Shofar

What is the basis for many of today's hymns?

• Plainsong

• Chorale

Madrigals, songs for small groups of voices, were usually about what?

• Money

• Love

• Family

• Honor