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WorksheetsMedieval Music
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The word Medieval means... ?
Middle Ages
An Evil
Religious Music
Latin Music
About when did the Medieval Period start ?
500 BC
1000 BC
1400 BC
The Medieval Period was fake and never happened
What type of music primarily existed during the Medieval Period?
instrumental
sacred/vocal
sacred/instrumental
secular
What does monophonic music mean?
really fun music
music with multiple lines
music with only 1 line
instrumental music
What was organum?
the addition of instruments to vocal music
secular music
the addition of a second line of music to the monophonic line
another word for an organ
How was music passed down?
oral tradition/orally
record players
printed sheet music
music was never passed down
Who was a famous female composer of the Medieval Period?
Taylor Swift
Michael Miller
Clara Schumann
Hildegard von Bingen
When Italian theorist Guido d' Arezzo created his musical notation, what 2 things was it lacking when compared to modern musical notation?
I have no idea.
a 5th line on the staff and notation that dictated pitch
a 5th line on the staff and notation that dictated the rhythm
nothing- it was perfect.
What was the most widely form of chant?
Gregorian
Lutheran
Elizabethan
Catholic
Gregorian Chant uses
piano
voices only
Church Organ
voices and piano
Where were you most likely to hear music
court
village
church
Palace
The three social classes were:
Nobility, Kings, middle class
Middle class, clergy, Nobility
Clergy, church people, poor people
peasants, nobility, clergy
Life during this time was:
peaceful
wealthy
horrible
abundant
What is the term for chant with multiple notes per syllable of text?
melismatic
neumatic
syllabic
polyphonic
What is the term for songs written in vernacular instead of Latin?
Pop song
Secular song
Traveling song
Canon
The following are characteristics of a Gregorian chant, EXCEPT ______.
used neumes
free meter
sacred text
polyphonic
Who were the most important composers of secular music?
Minstrels
Choristers
Troubadours
Peasants
What was the ancestor of the Violin?
shawm
Gittern
Fiddle
Dulcimer
This music is a developed Gregorian chant.
Alleluia
Leonin
Perotin
Organum
Bonus: Who was the mathematician that helped develop a precise tuning system?
Apollo
Orpheus
Eurydice
Pythagoras
