Middle Ages Music Quiz

What was the main type of music during the Middle Ages?

• Secular music

• Instrumental music

• Sacred music

• Folk music

Which institution sponsored much of the surviving music from the Middle Ages?

• The state

• The monarchy

• The church

• The nobility

What were the ideals that helped raise the status of women during the Middle Ages?

• Chivalry and devotion to the Virgin Mary

• Knighthood and loyalty to the king

• Scholarship and education

• Trade and commerce

What is the name for a complex polyphonic composition used in church services?

• Chant

• Minstrelsy

• Motet

• Ballad

What are the three categories of chant melodies based on how many notes are set to each syllable of text?

• Syllabic, neumatic, melismatic

• Monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic

• Major, minor, chromatic

• Ternary, binary, rondo

What is the most solemn ritual of the Catholic Church?

• The Mass

• The Office

• The Liturgy

• The Sermon

Which composer is known for her religious poetry with music?

• Hildegard of Bingen

• Guillaume de Machaut

• Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

• Leonin

What is the term for the earliest type of polyphony?

• Organum

• Motet

• Chanson

• Estampie

Which composer is known for his polyphonic chansons set to fixed text forms?

• Guillaume de Machaut

• Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

• Leonin

• Hildegard of Bingen

What is the term for a new genre that emerged near the end of the thirteenth century?

• Motet

• Chanson

• Estampie

• Troubadour