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WorksheetsAntiquity & Medieval Music Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Music was very important in which culture?
Roman culture
Greek culture
Chinese culture
Egyptian culture
Who "adopted" all of their musical culture from the Greeks?
The Romans
The Greeks
The Egyptians
The Chinese
Ancient musicians relied heavily on sheet music and watching others perform.
False
True
Ancient Greek music and the music of the Early Church both used voices.
True
False
Leonin had the most surviving chants of any other medieval composer.
True
False
Who is known for 3 & 4 part organum?
Perotin
Hildegard Von Bingen
Leonin
Guillaume de Machaut
Sacred music talks about ________ things.
Specific
Non-religious
Polyphony
Church/Religious
Who helped to develop the Guidonian Hand?
Leonin
Guido d'Arezzo
Perotin
Guillaume de Machaut
During the Ars Nova movement, music notation became so ________ and accurate that it could be brought to a different place and played the _______ way the original composer intended.
Specific
Non-religious
Accurate music
Exact same
One of Guillaume de Machaut's most famous songs is a type of ________ called 'Douce Dame Jolie (Sweet, Beautiful Lady)'.
Monophonic
Virelais
Organum
Polyphony
The __________ was the dominant social institution of the Middle Ages.
Monophonic Church
Greek Church
Government
Christian Church
A style of early polyphony which adds additional voices to an existing chant is called:
Polyphony
Organum
Virelais
Monophonic
A choir student gets a new piece of music and is expected to sing it without practice the first time they see it. What is this called?
Composing
Singing by themselves
Sight-reading
Practicing
2 or more independent lines of music happening at the same time is called:
Monophonic
Virelais
Organum
Polyphony
One's ethical character or way of being and behaving; morals; what you believe is right and wrong.
Music
Monophonic
Melody
Ethos
Songs to a god or goddess are called:
Music
Hymns
Polyphony
Melody
