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WorksheetsMedieval Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
The Medieval Era was from
1400- 1600
1830- 1860
1600- 1750
1150- 1400
Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by
Mothers of the Church
Men and Boys of tin churches
Women of the church
Priest
Gregorian melodies are traditionally written using
Staffs
Ledger Lines
Neumes
Paper
Gregorian chant is named after
George Washington
St. George
St. Gregory
George Clooney
The chants can be sung by using
Neumes
Wooden instruments
six-note patterns called hexachords
Organum
The history of organum would not be complete without two of its greatest innovators Léonin &..
Will smith & Martin Lawrence
Pérotin
Bach
Chopin
In its earliest stages, Organum involved two musical voices: a Gregorian chant melody, and the same melody transposed by a consonant interval, usually a
Perfect 4th or 5th
Major 3rd or 6th
Minor 3rd or 6th
Augmented 4th or 5th
The earliest motets arose in the 13th century from the organum tradition exemplified in the ______________________ of Léonin and Pérotin
British School
Notre- Dame School
French School
Ave Maria School
Organums were given these to create early Motets
Chants
Lyrics
Clausulae
Instruments
Secular Motets did not include this subject
Love
Politics
Church
Pastoral encounters with shepherdesses
•In music, the Trecento was a time of vigorous activity in Italy, as it was in France, with which there was a frequent interchange of musicians and influences. Much of the surviving music is...
Monophonic
Chants
Motets
Polyphonic
This is an example of what kind of music
Gregorian Chant
Canon
Organum
Motet
This is an example of what kind of music
Motet
Gregorian Chant
Organum
Canon
This is an example of what kind of music
Organum
Canon
Motet
Gregorian Chant
Match the definition to the word:
a short, lyrical piece of music
Ars Nova
Chant
Ballade
Accompaniment
Match the definition to the word:
a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages
Melody
Polyphony
Counterpoint
Organum
Match the definition to the word:
a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history
Pérotin
Léonin
St. Augustine
Hildegard Von Bingen
Match the definition to the word:
a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love
Accompaniment
Heterophony
Mass
Troubadours
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is motion in the same direction, keeping the same interval between notes
Parallel Motion
Mass
Counterpoint
Neumes
The founder of what is now considered the standard music staff was
Hildegard Von Bingen
Guido d'Arezzo
The Roman Catholic Church
Charlemagne, king of the Franks
