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Unit 2, Test Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Between 700 and 900, the first steps were taken that would eventually _________ western music.

a)

modernize

b)

record

c)

transform

d)

destroy

2.

Gregorian chant is named after _________________________________.

a)

Gregory House

b)

Pope Gregory I

c)

Gregory Peck

d)

unknown

3.

Medieval music containing one or more additional melodic lines is called _______>

a)

rock music

b)

organum

c)

duplum

d)

ballata

4.

Which of the following is one of the types of services monks and nuns would sing?

a)

concerto

b)

ballata

c)

organum

d)

office

5.

Subdivisions of ______ were used to symbolize the Holy Trinity.

a)

6

b)

5

c)

3

d)

4

6.

Gregorian Chant represesnts the voice of the ______ church as a whole rather than each individual.

a)

church

b)

family

c)

clergy

d)

city

7.

In 1323 Machaut became secretary and chaplain of King John of _________.

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Bohemia

d)

England

8.

Boys would receive music education in __________  associated with churches and cathedrals.

a)

schools

b)

businesses

c)

restaurants

d)

theatres

9.

After 1150, Paris became the center for _______ music.

a)

hip hop

b)

homophonic

c)

polyphonic

d)

monophonic

10.

By the early 14th century, a new form of music ________________ had developed.

a)

notation

b)

form

c)

texture

d)

style

11.

Chants were passed along ________________________ at first.

a)

on paper

b)

through recordings

c)

by luck

d)

orally

12.

As he traveled, _______ presented beautifully decorated copies of his music and poetry to noble patrons. 

a)

Landini

b)

Machaut

c)

Williams

d)

Spell

13.

____________________ were an important source of information in a time when newspapers did not exist.

a)

jongleurs

b)

ballata

c)

trouveres

d)

lutes

14.

Ars nova means ________________________.

a)

secular music

b)

sacred music

c)

new art

d)

mass

15.

French nobles who were poet-musicians were called ____________.

a)

troubadors

b)

trouveres

c)

both of these

d)

neither of these

16.

The approximate dates of the Middle Ages are _______________.

a)

450-1450

b)

300-1300

c)

1995-2005

d)

1100-1200

17.

The earliest surviving manuscripts date back to the ________ century.

a)

3rd

b)

4th

c)

6th

d)

9th

18.

Knights gained reputations as ____________, as they might have from fighting bravely in previous times.

a)

dancers

b)

musical poets

c)

opera singers

d)

vagabonds

19.

Women were not allowed to sing in church, but were able to do so in __________.

a)

taverns

b)

schools

c)

convents

d)

theatres

20.

Wandering minstrels called _____ performed music and acrobatics in public areas.

a)

troubadors

b)

jongleurs

c)

trouveres

d)

lutes

21.

The first secular songs surviving in decipherable _______ were composed in the 12th and 13th centuries by French nobles called troubadours and trouveres.

a)

texture

b)

language

c)

notation

d)

form

22.

The use of ___________ was frowned upon in earlier times due to their usage in pagan rites.

a)

notation

b)

instruments

c)

texture

d)

style

23.

Many of their love songs have survived because the nobles had _______ write them down.

a)

clerics

b)

troubadors

c)

trouveres

d)

jongluers

24.

The ___________ became popular after the year 1000.

a)

harp

b)

fiddle

c)

organ

d)

lute

25.

A _______________________ is an Italian poetic and musical form, originating as a dance-song.

a)

ballata

b)

troubador

c)

trouvere

d)

lute