Antiquity & Medieval Music Quiz

Music was very important in which culture?

• Roman culture

• Greek culture

• Chinese culture

• Egyptian culture

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Who "adopted" all of their musical culture from the Greeks?

• The Romans

• The Greeks

• The Egyptians

• The Chinese

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Ancient musicians relied heavily on sheet music and watching others perform.

• False

• True

Ancient Greek music and the music of the Early Church both used voices.

• True

• False

Leonin had the most surviving chants of any other medieval composer.

• True

• False

Who is known for 3 & 4 part organum?

• Perotin

• Hildegard Von Bingen

• Leonin

• Guillaume de Machaut

Sacred music talks about ________ things.

• Specific

• Non-religious

• Polyphony

• Church/Religious

Who helped to develop the Guidonian Hand?

• Leonin

• Guido d'Arezzo

• Perotin

• Guillaume de Machaut

During the Ars Nova movement, music notation became so ________ and accurate that it could be brought to a different place and played the _______ way the original composer intended.

• Specific

• Non-religious

• Accurate music

• Exact same

One of Guillaume de Machaut's most famous songs is a type of ________ called 'Douce Dame Jolie (Sweet, Beautiful Lady)'.

• Monophonic

• Virelais

• Organum

• Polyphony