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Antiquity & Medieval Music Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Music was very important in which culture?

a)

Roman culture

b)

Greek culture

c)

Chinese culture

d)

Egyptian culture

2.

Who "adopted" all of their musical culture from the Greeks?

a)

The Romans

b)

The Greeks

c)

The Egyptians

d)

The Chinese

3.

Ancient musicians relied heavily on sheet music and watching others perform.

a)

False

b)

True

4.

Ancient Greek music and the music of the Early Church both used voices.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Leonin had the most surviving chants of any other medieval composer.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who is known for 3 & 4 part organum?

a)

Perotin

b)

Hildegard Von Bingen

c)

Leonin

d)

Guillaume de Machaut

7.

Sacred music talks about ________ things.

a)

Specific

b)

Non-religious

c)

Polyphony

d)

Church/Religious

8.

Who helped to develop the Guidonian Hand?

a)

Leonin

b)

Guido d'Arezzo

c)

Perotin

d)

Guillaume de Machaut

9.

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.

a)

Specific

b)

Non-religious

c)

Accurate music

d)

Exact same

10.

One of Guillaume de Machaut's most famous songs is a type of ________ called 'Douce Dame Jolie (Sweet, Beautiful Lady)'.

a)

Monophonic

b)

Virelais

c)

Organum

d)

Polyphony

11.

The __________ was the dominant social institution of the Middle Ages.

a)

Monophonic Church

b)

Greek Church

c)

Government

d)

Christian Church

12.

A style of early polyphony which adds additional voices to an existing chant is called:

a)

Polyphony

b)

Organum

c)

Virelais

d)

Monophonic

13.

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?

a)

Composing

b)

Singing by themselves

c)

Sight-reading

d)

Practicing

14.

2 or more independent lines of music happening at the same time is called:

a)

Monophonic

b)

Virelais

c)

Organum

d)

Polyphony

15.

One's ethical character or way of being and behaving; morals; what you believe is right and wrong.

a)

Music

b)

Monophonic

c)

Melody

d)

Ethos

16.

Songs to a god or goddess are called:

a)

Music

b)

Hymns

c)

Polyphony

d)

Melody