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Medieval Music

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Roughly, the time of the Medieval Period

a)

1600-1750

b)

500-1450

c)

1800-1900

2.

Where were you most likely to hear music

a)

church

b)

court

c)

village

3.

A single line melody that is sung by one person

a)

melisma

b)

chant

c)

polyphony

4.

The most important religious service

a)

Christmas Cantata

b)

Oratorio

c)

Mass

5.

Sacred music is

a)

religious

b)

not religious

6.

Secular music is

a)

religious

b)

not religious

7.

More than one note sung to a syllable, like Ariel when she give her voice to the Sea Witch

a)

counterpoint

b)

melisma

c)

rap

8.

Select the four church modes

a)

Dorian

b)

Phrygian

c)

Lydian

d)

Mixolydian

e)

Ernie

9.

Chant named for Pope Gregory

a)

Hymns

b)

Gregorian Chant

10.

Early note notation used these symbols that did not indicate exact rhythm or pitch

a)

notes

b)

neumes

c)

noses

11.

Secular music was most popular in

a)

America and Englan

b)

Russia and China

c)

France and Germany

12.

Secular musician in France

a)

Troubadors

b)

Minnesingers

13.

Secular musicians in Germany

a)

troubadors

b)

minnesingers

14.

One line, sung in unison like chant

a)

monphony

b)

polyphony

15.

Two or melodies sung at the same time

a)

monophony

b)

polyphony

16.

First form of polyphony

a)

chant

b)

organum

c)

love song

17.

Where did Leonin and Perotin work

a)

Vatican

b)

Notre Dame

18.

An interval considered to sound pleasant

a)

consonant

b)

dissonant

19.

A clashing, diabolical interval

a)

consonant

b)

dissonant

20.

When a melody beings in one part and then start again in another like Row, Row, Row Your Boat

a)

Nursery rhyme

b)

hymn

c)

chant

d)

canon

21.

A new type of sacred polyphonic music that is considered the most important type of polyphonic composition in this period

a)

chant

b)

organum

c)

motet

22.

Different from Ars Antiqua, a new style that was more expressive and rhythmic

a)

Ars nova

b)

Supernova

c)

Black hole

23.

Greatest composer in the Ars Nova Era who was a poet and a priest

a)

Perotin

b)

Machaut

c)

Leonin

24.

There are many surviving examples of Medieval instrumental music

a)

true

b)

false

25.

What instrument to play was not clearly specified in compositions from the Middle Ages

a)

True

b)

False