Medieval Test

The oldest music that we have extensive knowledge of is the music of the ___.

• Medieval Period

• Middle Ages

• Both

Beginning about the 12th century, cathedrals were built in the ___ style.

• Ars Nova

• Natural

• Gothic

The droning of unaccompanied religious texts to simple unison melodies developed by monks is called ___, or chant.

• motet

• plainsong

• organum

The style of chant that used one note per syllable was ___ chant.

• melismatic

• syllabic

• pneumatic

___ chant was more fluid and had more than one note per syllable.

• Melismatic

• Syllabic

• Pneumatic

The instrument invented during the Middle Ages that used a drone under the melody was the ___.

• recorder

• bassoon

• bag pipes

When one independent parallel melody was combined with a chant, ___ was invented.

• motet

• organum

• pneumatic chant

A great collection of chant was gathered in the 6th century by ___.

• Leonin

• Guido

• Pope Gregory I

By the 13th century, many secular music composers were adding more than one new voice above a chant creating ___.

• motet

• organum

• pneumatic chant

A musical composition where all of the voices sing the melody, but start at different times, is called a ___.

• canon

• motet

• madrigal