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Music Olympics Day 2: Medieval Music

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Medieval means

a)

A little evil

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Religion

2.

Name a popular type of music in the Medieval Era.

a)

Rap

b)

Mozart

c)

Gregorian Chant

d)

Children's songs

3.

Gregorian Chant uses

a)

piano

b)

electric guitar

c)

voices only

d)

voices and piano

4.
What does secular mean?
a)
non-religious
b)
religious
c)
pertaining to secu
d)
That you're popular
5.
What texture was early Medieval music?
a)
Polyphonic
b)
Monophonic
c)
Tutti
d)
Fuzzy
6.
A type of song the monks sang was:
a)
Sea Chanteys
b)
Gregorian Chant
c)
Nursery Rhymes
d)
Monkey songs
7.
During the Medieval time, the __________ was the center of musical life
a)
church
b)
art
c)
king
d)
Roman Empire
8.

Who was responsible for organizing and collecting plain chant?

a)

Pope Gregory the Great

b)

President Alan the Terrible

c)

Beyonce

d)

Pope Alex the Wise

9.

True or false? Instruments were not allowed in church during the Middle Ages.

a)

False

b)

True

10.

What is secular music?

a)

music about love

b)

music that is faster than chanting

c)

music that is about the SEC

d)

music that is not religious

11.

Medieval music was all religious.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The Gregorian Chants were all passed down through oral tradition but they became so numerous that monks started to notate them.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Which characteristic is not correspoding to Gregorian chant?

a)

A capella

b)

Latin

c)

Male choir

d)

Accompanied by instruments

14.

This element of music consists of two or more sounds or notes played or heard simultaneously.

a)

harmony

b)

melody

c)

rhythm

d)

timbre

15.

Gregorian chant is usually performed without instrumental accompaniment or acapella.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

16.

Gregorian chants are monophonic in texture, so have no harmony.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

17.

During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?

a)

The church

b)

The castle

c)

The merchant's living room

d)

The king's court

18.

Gregorian Chant is written in:

a)

English

b)

Latin

c)

German

d)

Italian

19.

The history of organum would not be complete without two of its greatest innovators Léonin &..

a)

Will smith & Martin Lawrence

b)

Pérotin

c)

Bach

d)

Chopin

20.

Match the definition to the word:

a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most-recorded in modern history

a)

Pérotin

b)

Léonin

c)

St. Augustine

d)

Hildegard Von Bingen