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WorksheetsAncient/Medieval Music Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
What musical stringed instrument was popular in Ancient Greek and Ancient Rome and continued to be a modern emblem of music?_____________________
Flute
Lyre
Piano
Dulcimer
The subjects of the greek system of education ("Quadrivium") were Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and (a)
What Ancient Greek discovered mathematical principles alongside furthering an understanding of music?
Socrates
Plato
Pythagoras
Anaximander
When did the Middle Ages begin?
after the Greek Empire
after the Roman Empire
after the Egyptian Empire
after the Myan Empire
What part of the world is mostly responsible for the origins of "Western Classical Music?"
America
Europe
Asia
Middle East
The first 1400 years of "Western Music" was dominated by
Alexander the Great
Organum
Pope Gregory
The Church
Sacred music is...
Music used for religious services or purpose
The same as secular music
Always monophonic
Always polyphonic
What is music that is not related to religion or religious services called?
Sacred
Secular
Seikilos
Plainchant
Plainchant is...
Unaccompanied, monophonic, sacred vocal music
Played on an organ
Music featuring two or more independent melodies
Secular music
Most religious Medieval music was sung in Latin.
True
False
What is a melisma?
one syllable per note
a word
A medieval instrument
multiple notes over one syllable
In the earliest forms of notation,
What is the name of the symbol above
the Latin text to indicate notes?
Neumes
Sharps
Flats
Notes
Which composer invented a set of syllables to help singers learn melodies (solmization), which led to the creation of the musical staff?
Guido de Arezzo
Pope Gregory
Leonin
Perotin
Organum is a type of harmony.
True
False
A Liturgical Drama was
A medieval monastery
A medical practice
A great book of organum
a type of staged performance or play teaching Biblical stories
Who were known as wondering minstrels, traveling from town to town, and were some fo the earliest professional musicians?
Monks
Troubadours
Motets
Madrigals
Mostly, Medieval secular songs were about (a)
What is it called when ONE single melody is played, written, or sung with no harmony?
Polyphony
Monophony
Plainchant
Ars Nova
Music featuring TWO OR MORE melodies played, written, or sung at the same time
Polyphony
Monophony
Plainchant
Organ
What are three characteristics of Hildegard von Bingen's music?
Monophonic
Syllabic
Melismatic
Liturgical songs
What were the name of the two French composers that wrote Magnus Liber Organi (The Great Book of Organum)?
Pope Gregory and Guido of Arezzo
Leonin and Perotin
St. John the Baptist and his brother
Guillaume de Machaut and Guillaume Dufay
In what medieval thought, did anything new have to be based on something old?
Leonin & Perotin's music was writen with this method
Ars Nova
Ars Antiqua
Ars Subtilior
Ars Motet
What medieval composer was considered one of the most important of the period writing both sacred and secular music and wrote in the
Ars Nova style
Guillaume de Machaut
Philip de Vitry
Hildegard von Bingen
Perotin
