WorksheetsMedieval Instruments
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
A Flute was made of wood in the Medieval Era.
True
False
Trumpets were longer and skinnier than they are today and were used for
to alert the people of danger.
fanfares and pageants.
to help call the cattle.
A bagpipe was made using a goat or sheep skin with a reed pipe and was played by
royalty.
people of the King's court.
the poorest people.
middle class people.
A Crumhorn was a double reed instrument.
True
False
This instrument was an egg-shaped woodwind instrument with a mouth piece and finger holes.
Flute
Violin
Harp
Ocarina
A slender double-reed woodwind instrument was called
Hautboy
Ocarina
Lizard
Flute
The instrument originally made of a horn (ox or a ram) was called
Hautboy
Bombard
Horn
Ocarina
The harp was played by the
King.
Queen.
Troubadours and minstrels.
Peasants.
The plucked string instrument that had a pear-shaped body, fretted fingerboard and bent at the neck was the
Fiddle
Harp
Lute
Psaltery
The early version of the violin was called the
Psaltery
Rebec
Chittarone
Cittern
This fretted string instrument was very long, being about 6 feet tall!
Chittarone
Harp
Dulcimer
Lute
An instrument similar to the lute (strings and fretted fingerboard) was
Clavichord
Dulcimer
Mandoline
Spinet
The Dulcimer was a flat string instrument that sat on your lap, and you struck the strings with small hammers.
True
False
How many strings did a viol have?
10
4
6
2
Which is true about a viol?
6 strings, played on the lap or between the legs, used a bow and had frets.
6 strings, played on the floor, used a bow and had frets.
4 strings, played on the neck, used a bow, and had frets.
4 strings, played on the lap or between the legs, used a bow and had frets.
Drums were made from
Aluminum and leaves.
Hollow tree trunk, clay or metal, and covered by skins of water animals.
Metal and leaves.
Thin round concave metal plates that are hit together to create a sound are called
Drums.
Viol.
Flute.
Cymbals.
A metal instrument that looks like a triangle and is hit with a small metal bar is called
Cymbals.
Squares.
Triangles.
Circles.
One small drum that was used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife (both being played by the same person) was
Timbrel
Tabor
Tambourine
Cymbals
An instrument that belongs to the string family, where the bow was replaced by strings attached to a wheel which was cranked by a handle was called
Hurdy-gurdy
Timbrel
Bells
Tambourine
A circular instrument played mainly by women, that had stretched animal skin with little cymbals all around it
Triangle
Drum
Tambourine
Tabor
