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WorksheetsMedieval Music
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Roughly, the time of the Medieval Period
1600-1750
500-1450
1800-1900
Where were you most likely to hear music
church
court
village
A single line melody that is sung by one person
melisma
chant
polyphony
The most important religious service
Christmas Cantata
Oratorio
Mass
Sacred music is
religious
not religious
Secular music is
religious
not religious
More than one note sung to a syllable, like Ariel when she give her voice to the Sea Witch
counterpoint
melisma
rap
Select the four church modes
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Ernie
Chant named for Pope Gregory
Hymns
Gregorian Chant
Early note notation used these symbols that did not indicate exact rhythm or pitch
notes
neumes
noses
Secular music was most popular in
America and Englan
Russia and China
France and Germany
Secular musician in France
Troubadors
Minnesingers
Secular musicians in Germany
troubadors
minnesingers
One line, sung in unison like chant
monphony
polyphony
Two or melodies sung at the same time
monophony
polyphony
First form of polyphony
chant
organum
love song
Where did Leonin and Perotin work
Vatican
Notre Dame
An interval considered to sound pleasant
consonant
dissonant
A clashing, diabolical interval
consonant
dissonant
When a melody beings in one part and then start again in another like Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Nursery rhyme
hymn
chant
canon
A new type of sacred polyphonic music that is considered the most important type of polyphonic composition in this period
chant
organum
motet
Different from Ars Antiqua, a new style that was more expressive and rhythmic
Ars nova
Supernova
Black hole
Greatest composer in the Ars Nova Era who was a poet and a priest
Perotin
Machaut
Leonin
There are many surviving examples of Medieval instrumental music
true
false
What instrument to play was not clearly specified in compositions from the Middle Ages
True
False
