MUSIC Q1 LESSON 4 Learning Task #2

1. Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines

performance with communication of emotions and __________________.

• A. Organum

• B. European

• C. Instrumental technique

• D. Published

• E. Unwritten music

2. Melodic improvisation was an important factor in _____________music from the earliest times.

• A. Organum

• B. Published

• C. European

• D. Unwritten music

• E. Instrumental technique

3. The first detailed information on improvisation

technique appears in ninth-century treatises

instructing singers on how to add another

melody to a pre-existent liturgical chant, in a

style called _______________.

• A. Unwritten music

• B. Organum

• C. Published

• D. European

• E. Instrumental technique

4. Following the invention of music printing, there is a more detailed documentation of improvisational practice, in the form of __________instruction manuals.

• A. Instrumental technique

• B. Organum

• C. European

• D. Unwritten music

• E. Published

5. Improvised counterpoint over a cantus firmus constituted a part of every musician's education, and is regarded as the most important kind _____________________.

• A. Published

• B. Instrumental technique

• C. European

• D. Unwritten music

• E. Organum