Reading Music - History and Practice

The Epitaph of Seikolos:

• Was composed around the 1st C. AD

• Was discovered in Turkey in 1883

• Is a memorial to Seikilos' dead wife and written on stone

• All of the above

Squiggles which were visual representations of religious chants used by monks in the early middle ages

Credited with inventing lined music and solfeggio

Guido's staff began as one line and over time developed into five

• True

• False

Notes developed from squiggles called neumes into Guido's square-shaped notes, then into shapes that included duration instead of just pitch.

• True

• False

The first basic time signatures were:

• common time

• cut time

• both a & b

Around the same time, time signatures began to be used and the names for note values also began to be used.

• True

• False

Around Bach's time, the following developments were made in written music:

• Bar lines began to be used

• Note-heads became round instead of square

• Time signatures became more complex

• All of the above

Dynamics (how loud or soft a composer wishes the music to be played) and articulations (with which style a note is to be played -- short, accented, etc.) began to be used in the Classical era.

• True

• False

Which answers are true of the treble clef?

• It is also called the "G" clef because it shows that the note "g" is placed on the second line.

• It is used for the notes on the top half of the piano (high notes,)

• It is a stylized letter "G."

• Lines: E G B D F

  Spaces: F A C E