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Renaissance Music

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The word Medieval means...

a)

Middle Ages

b)

A little bit evil

c)

Religious Music

d)

Latin Music

2.

Medieval music was all religious.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Another word for religious is sacred?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Another word for religious is secular.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

A drone is a repeated pattern.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A drone is a long held note.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

A drone is a....

a)

Repeated pattern.

b)

Long held note.

c)

Musical Instrument.

d)

Pattern of long and short notes.

8.

An ostinato is a long held note.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

An ostinato is a repeated pattern.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

An ostinato is a....

a)

Repeated pattern.

b)

Long held note.

c)

Musical instrument.

d)

A language.

11.

Most religious Medieval music was sung in Latin.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Choose the WRONG answer to the following statement:

Religious music was normally in Latin because..

a)

Latin was an educated language, English was for the commoners.

b)

All their texts were written in Latin, English was only just starting to be written down.

c)

It was traditional to use Latin in Church.

d)

English hadn't been invented.

13.

A melody is...

a)

A mix of high and low notes that sound nice.

b)

A pattern made from long and short notes.

c)

Playing two or more notes together.

14.

Another word for melody is...

a)

The tune.

b)

The rhythm.

c)

The beat.

15.

Harmony means....

a)

Playing two or more notes together.

b)

A pattern of long or short notes.

c)

The tune.

16.

The harmony is playing or singing two or more notes at the same time.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Plainchant is a single line of melody.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Organum is a type of harmony.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Organum means...

a)

Adding a second melody line in parallel with the first.

b)

Performing a totally new melody with the first one.

c)

The drone.

20.

Texture describes...

a)

How many different parts are playing at the same time.

b)

How loud or soft the music is.

c)

How fast or slow the music is.

21.
When was the Medieval Era?
a)
1492
b)
500-100 BC
c)
450-1450 AD
d)
1600-1650
22.
What texture was early music?
a)
Polyphonic
b)
Monophonic
c)
Tutti
d)
Fuzzy
23.
What does secular mean?
a)
non-religious
b)
religious
c)
pertaining to secu
d)
That you're popular
24.
What is a melisma?
a)
one syllable per note
b)
a word
c)
An earthquake
d)
one syllable over multiple notes
25.
A type of song the monks sang was:
a)
Sea Chanteys
b)
Gregorian Chant
c)
Nursery Rhymes
d)
Monkey songs
26.
Hildegard von Bingen was:
a)
Queen of England
b)
Inventor of English
c)
a nun that wrote music
d)
The witch in Hansel and Gretal
27.
What language were chants in?
a)
Middle English
b)
German
c)
Olde English
d)
Latin
28.
The art looked...
a)
flat
b)
fuzzy
c)
3D
d)
life-like
29.
The three social classes were:
a)
Nobility, Kings, middle class
b)
Middle class, clergy, Nobility
c)
Clergy, church people, poor people
d)
peasants, nobility, clergy
30.
A famous piece of literature that has survived from this time is:
a)
Romeo and Juliet
b)
Frankenstein
c)
Beowolf
d)
Jurassic park
31.
Who married the king of France and then the King of England
a)
Eleanor of Aquitane
b)
Queen Elizabeth I
c)
Anne Boleyn 
d)
Ella of France
32.
Life during this time was:
a)
peaceful
b)
horrible
c)
wealthy 
d)
abundant
33.
The __________ was the center of musical life
a)
church
b)
art
c)
king
d)
Roman Empire
34.

Gregorian Chant uses

a)

piano

b)

electric guitar

c)

voices only

d)

voices and piano

35.

Where were you most likely to hear music

a)

church

b)

court

c)

village