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WorksheetsAncient - Renaissance Music History
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 47mins
It begins with the Fall of Rome (476)
Medieval
Renaissance
Both
Neither
The work of Pythagoras is said to discover the relationship between musical sound and math during the the time of Ancient Greece. In contrast, during the Medieval period people believed music sung in plainchant...
Was strictly composed using mathematical rules.
Was a holy gift from god.
Was mandatory for all Minstrels to learn to be accepted into the musicians guild.
All of the above.
During the Medieval music period who played instruments like the lute, recorder, sackbutt and hurdy-gurdy?
Monks
Minstrels
The King
None of the above
What’s the name of this instrument?
Snaky
Toilette tube
Serpent
Hard blowing
Name this instrument:
Hurry up
Hardy and Laurel
Hurdy gurdy
Harry Potter
What instruments existed in the Medieval Age?
Trumpets, timpani, banjos and bongoes
Tambourine, hurdy gurdy, recorders and electric guitars
Flutes, recorders, tambourines and lutes
Harps, lyres, pianos and glockenspiels
Another word for Minstrel during this period could be...
Court Musicians/Poets
Troubadours
Minnesingers
All of the above.
During the Medieval Period it was common for music to be created by...
Minstrels and Monks
Minstrels and Nuns
Nuns and Monks
Minstrels, Monks and Nuns
The first known Western Female composer was a Nun by the name of...
Gregory I
Palestrina of Pisa
Guillaume de Machaut
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen was not only known as an extraordinary composer but as a...
diplomat
prophet
poet
all of the above.
Hildegard of Bingen's known collection of compositions included...
2 large collections of church music
3 epics and chansons
3 epics, chansons and a sacred musical drama featuring 82 songs
2 large collections of church music, including a sacred musical drama with 82 songs
Who wrote the first music theory known?
Guindilla en Pizza
Guido de Borriol
Guía de aderezos
Guido de Arezzo
During Ancient and Medieval times musicians memorized their music until approximately 900 CE when...
The church choirs began using sol fedge and pointing to their fingers to show the pitches.
The monk Guido of Arezzo recommended a new method of writing notes on lines and spaces.
Writing and reading music notation called nums began to be developed by choirs and churches.
B & C
A & C
This image represents the evolution of...
The FA cleff
The bass cleff
The treble cleff
Human being
Despite the new developments with music notation, written music still did not have a way to show...
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Pitch
This is music that has one melody.
Homophonic
Polyphonic
Monophonic
More than one note per syllable of text
Syllabic
Monophonic
Melismatic
Charismatic
Monophony
Organum
Madrigal
Plainsong
Pavane and Galliard
This is music that has 2 or more melodies happening at the same time.
Homophonic
Polyphonic
Monophonic
It begins with the invention of the Printing Press (1450)
Medieval
Renaissance
Both
Neither
What time period happened before the Renaissance?
The Medieval Times
The Dark Times
The Ancient Times
The Beginning of time
A factor for the rise of the Renaissance was...
The development of the new technology of the printing press.
The end of the Plague the Black Death.
The rising merchant middle class and establishment of guilds.
The fall of Constantinople to the invading Turks in 1453, thus many scholars fled to the west, bringing Ancient manuscripts with them.
All of the above.
During the Renaissance, even King Henry VIII enjoyed composing and singing. One such composition was speculated to be composed for Anne Boleyn by the name...
To the Maypole with Haste
Greensleeves
The Flowers of the Forest
Bonnie Wee Thing
Renaissance polyphony, also known as _________________, emphasized sweet sounding, consonant music and pleasing tones.
Cantus Firmus
First Species
Monophonic
Counterpoint
During the Medieval period the melody was often sung by lower voices. But by 1500 CE the ____________ voices usually sang the melody.
Tenor
Bass
Highest
Lowest
During the Renaissance a renowned French composer was compared to Michelangelo and his 'Ave Maria' campared to the Mona Lisa of Renaissance music. His name was ____________
Hildegard of Bingen
Josquin des Prez
Palestrina
Pope Gregory I
Making instruments became an art in itself during the Renaissance. Andrea Amati built the oldest surviving violin in 1564 and his grandsons apprentices would go on to found the famous violin-making families in history:
The Guarneri
The Monteverdi
The Stradivari & Guarneri
The Monteverdi & Guarneri
The Stradivari
Due to the Protestant Reformation music in churches was changing from complicated polyphonic music to....
Monophonic planesong
Madrigals
Motets
Homophonic - Melody with Chords
What are the dates for the Renaissance Period?
1600-1750
1100-1400
1400-1500
1400-1600
