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Medieval Music

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The word Medieval means... ?

a)

Middle Ages

b)

An Evil

c)

Religious Music

d)

Latin Music

2.

About when did the Medieval Period start ?

a)

500 BC

b)

1000 BC

c)

1400 BC

d)

The Medieval Period was fake and never happened

3.

What type of music primarily existed during the Medieval Period?

a)

instrumental

b)

sacred/vocal

c)

sacred/instrumental

d)

secular

4.

What does monophonic music mean?

a)

really fun music

b)

music with multiple lines

c)

music with only 1 line

d)

instrumental music

5.

What was organum?

a)

the addition of instruments to vocal music

b)

secular music

c)

the addition of a second line of music to the monophonic line

d)

another word for an organ

6.

How was music passed down?

a)

oral tradition/orally

b)

record players

c)

printed sheet music

d)

music was never passed down

7.

Who was a famous female composer of the Medieval Period?

a)

Taylor Swift

b)

Michael Miller

c)

Clara Schumann

d)

Hildegard von Bingen

8.

When Italian theorist Guido d' Arezzo created his musical notation, what 2 things was it lacking when compared to modern musical notation?

a)

I have no idea.

b)

a 5th line on the staff and notation that dictated pitch

c)

a 5th line on the staff and notation that dictated the rhythm

d)

nothing- it was perfect.

9.

What was the most widely form of chant?

a)

Gregorian

b)

Lutheran

c)

Elizabethan

d)

Catholic

10.

Gregorian Chant uses

a)

piano

b)

voices only

c)

Church Organ

d)

voices and piano

11.

Where were you most likely to hear music

a)

court

b)

village

c)

church

d)

Palace

12.

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

13.

Life during this time was:

a)

peaceful

b)

wealthy 

c)

horrible

d)

abundant

14.

What is the term for chant with multiple notes per syllable of text?

a)

melismatic

b)

neumatic

c)

syllabic

d)

polyphonic

15.

What is the term for songs written in vernacular instead of Latin?

a)

Pop song

b)

Secular song

c)

Traveling song

d)

Canon

16.

The following are characteristics of a Gregorian chant, EXCEPT ______.

a)

used neumes

b)

free meter

c)

sacred text

d)

polyphonic

17.

Who were the most important composers of secular music?

a)

Minstrels

b)

Choristers

c)

Troubadours

d)

Peasants

18.

What was the ancestor of the Violin?

a)

shawm

b)

Gittern

c)

Fiddle

d)

Dulcimer

19.

This music is a developed Gregorian chant.

a)

Alleluia

b)

Leonin

c)

Perotin

d)

Organum

20.

Bonus: Who was the mathematician that helped develop a precise tuning system?

a)

Apollo

b)

Orpheus

c)

Eurydice

d)

Pythagoras