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Secular Music in the Middle Ages

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were women troubadours called?

a)

Trobairitz

b)

Trouveres

c)

Trobaby

d)

Troubarina

2.

Who wrote the love song 'A Chantar' (I must sing)

a)

Guido of Arezzo

b)

Beatriz di Dia

c)

Hildegard of Bingen

d)

Perotin

3.

How did historians know that there was secular music?

a)

A few dance tunes survived

b)

Descriptions of music making in pictures

c)

Few instruments were known to exist

d)

Through writings from the Church

4.

What were the wandering poet singers who sang epic songs and are known as travelling entertainers

a)

Bards

b)

Barber

c)

Badri

d)

Barca

5.

Some poems have more than one melody, and some poets create new words to existing melodies, a process called___________?

a)

Counterbalance

b)

Counterfeit

c)

Contrafactum

d)

Contrafakta

6.

Songs that were preserved in songbooks are called

a)

chansonnieres

b)

chinoize

c)

chachacha

d)

chansconnieriezit

7.

What is this instrument called?

a)

Vielle

b)

Violette

c)

Vellet

d)

Violin

8.

What is this instrument called?

a)

Psalm

b)

Psaltry

c)

Psychology

d)

Psychic

9.

What is the Winchester Troper?

a)

An organum

b)

A place where an organum is sung

c)

A quill to write an organum

d)

A book where it contains the largest organal sources written down

10.

What kind of Organum is this?

a)

Early Organum

b)

Parallel Organum

c)

Oblique Organum

d)

Free Organum

11.

Who was the leading composer of Ars Nova

a)

Guillaume de Machaut

b)

Perotinus

c)

Guido of Arezzo

d)

Hildegard of Bingen

12.

Which is NOT a characteristic of Motets?

a)

it was a new genre in Notre Dame

b)

it is a sacred form of music

c)

It is based on a section called a 'clasula'

d)

It is sung in Latin and French