WorksheetsSecular Music in the Middle Ages
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What were women troubadours called?
Trobairitz
Trouveres
Trobaby
Troubarina
Who wrote the love song 'A Chantar' (I must sing)
Guido of Arezzo
Beatriz di Dia
Hildegard of Bingen
Perotin
How did historians know that there was secular music?
A few dance tunes survived
Descriptions of music making in pictures
Few instruments were known to exist
Through writings from the Church
What were the wandering poet singers who sang epic songs and are known as travelling entertainers
Bards
Barber
Badri
Barca
Some poems have more than one melody, and some poets create new words to existing melodies, a process called___________?
Counterbalance
Counterfeit
Contrafactum
Contrafakta
Songs that were preserved in songbooks are called
chansonnieres
chinoize
chachacha
chansconnieriezit
What is this instrument called?
Vielle
Violette
Vellet
Violin
What is this instrument called?
Psalm
Psaltry
Psychology
Psychic
What is the Winchester Troper?
An organum
A place where an organum is sung
A quill to write an organum
A book where it contains the largest organal sources written down
What kind of Organum is this?
Early Organum
Parallel Organum
Oblique Organum
Free Organum
Who was the leading composer of Ars Nova
Guillaume de Machaut
Perotinus
Guido of Arezzo
Hildegard of Bingen
Which is NOT a characteristic of Motets?
it was a new genre in Notre Dame
it is a sacred form of music
It is based on a section called a 'clasula'
It is sung in Latin and French
