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Middle Ages in Music

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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1.

(a)   is a type of monophonic music associated with the Middle Ages.

2.

It is hard to tap your foot along to chant, because chant does not have a (a)  

3.

Monophonic music has one (a)   , all by itself.

4.

Gregorian chant was part of the _ _ _ _, which is the most solemn ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.

(a)  

5.

Sometimes the melody of a song is performed by one person; this is called a (a)   .

6.

Sometimes multiple people perform the same melody all together. Playing or singing the same note together is called playing or singing in (a)   . (Hint: The answer starts with a u)

7.

(a)   music has multiple melodies being performed simultaneously, and each of the melodies could be a main melody on its own.

8.

The vocabulary word meaning "not religious" is

(a)  

9.

The vocabular word meaning "religious" is

(a)  

10.

The word that means "the common language of a place" is

(a)  

11.

(a)   is the quality of sound that distinguishes one voice or instrument from another (also called tone or tone color).

12.

Monophonic and polyphonic are both words that describe how much is going on at a time in a song. What is the vocabulary word for how much is going on at a time in music?

(a)  

13.

These are characteristics of Gregorian chant.

a)

monophonic

b)

polyphonic

c)

sacred

d)

secular

e)

has no meter

14.

(a)   is the earliest polyphonic music, having 2 melodies at once.

15.

What type of medieval music was in triple meter, polyphonic with 3 more voices, and could be sacred or secular?

(a)