WorksheetsMEDIEVAL PERIOD
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 5mins
The medieval era was between ______ and _____.
400 - 1600 AD
500 - 1400 AD
1400 - 1600 AD
500 - 1200 AD
201 - 300 is the (a) century.
Plainchants were also called _____.
Bolivers
Gregorian chants
Rock
Plainchants are usually unaccompanied vocal music and they are usually ________.
polyphonic
monophonic
cacophonic
Hildergard of Bingen was a ________ abbess who composed 69 songs in the Medieval period.
American
German
Israeli
African
Polyphony means ________.
Everyone sings one melody together
A single melody playing
More than one melody playing at the same time
Apart from the church music of the medieval era, there were other musical cultures such as the ______ and ______. (Select the two answers)
Troubadours
Trouvères
West Life
Beatles
______________ was a traveling French composer and poet who composed complex music in the medieval era.
Guillaume de Machaut
Giovanni Palestrina
Mendini
The fiddle was played in the medieval era and later evolved to become the _______.
saxophone
violin
guitar
The Medieval era began with the fall of the Roman Empire.
True
False
The last century of the medieval period was marked by famine, conflict, and a plague called _____________ which wiped out as much as 60% of Europe's population.
black death
white angel
cholera
small pox
Select all the musical instruments that were played in the medieval period.
Gittern
Dulcimer
Percussion instruments (Tambourine and drums)
Trumpets and horns
Saxophone
