Part 02 The Culture of Medieval Music (Chapter 4)



Part 02

The Culture of Medieval Music (Chapter 4)

 

 

True / False Questions

 

1. The Christian church came to power during the height of the Greek civilization. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

 

2. During the late Middle Ages, everyone from the middle class up learned to read as part of a church education. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: medieval culture

 

3. The invention of the printing press was one of the things that helped to bring independent thought to European culture. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: medieval culture

 

4. 

The reason the study of music usually begins around A.D. 500 is that earlier music is just not worth studying.

 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

 

5. Church doctrine during the Middle Ages encouraged celebrating life on earth and living it to its fullest. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: medieval culture

 

6. Music notation was developed during the Middle Ages. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

 

7. Plainsong is another term for Gregorian chant. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Discuss characteristics of the Gregorian chant

Learning Objective: Trace the development of the Gregorian chant

Topic: Gregorian chant

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

 

8. The church modes are exactly the same as the major and minor scales. 

FALSE

 

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: key or tonality

Topic: medieval music

 

9. Gregorian chant was always sung in Latin. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Discuss characteristics of the Gregorian chant

Learning Objective: Trace the development of the Gregorian chant

Topic: Gregorian chant

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

 

10. During the Middle Ages, women did not participate in music making in the church except within convents. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

 

11. In a convent, the musical portions of a worship service were still performed by men and boys because it was forbidden for women to speak up in church. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

 

12. Hildegard of Bingen wrote textbooks on medicine as well as music. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: Hildegard of Bingen

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

 

13. The sections of the Mass that contains texts that vary with the day of the church year are called the Proper. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: mass

Topic: medieval music

 

14. The Ordinary of the Mass is the part that varies with each day. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: mass

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

 

15. Pérotin was the earliest composer involved in the development of polyphony at Notre Dame. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Describe early organum

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

Topic: polyphony

Topic: texture

 

16. All the music we have today from the Middle Ages is sacred music. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

Topic: secular music

 

17. Some secular music in the Middle Ages was quite bawdy. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

 

18. When several notes sung to one syllable of text, it is called a melisma. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

Topic: performers

Topic: voices

 

19. The troubadours, trouvères, and minnesingers were usually from the lower classes. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

 

20. During the Middle Ages, noblewomen frequently wrote poetry and music for their own and their families' enjoyment. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

 

21. Medieval motets could be a combination of sacred and secular because of the mix of texts. 

TRUE

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: sacred music

Topic: secular music

 

22. Medieval motets used a single text in Latin for each of the voices. 

FALSE

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: sacred music

Topic: secular music

 

 

Multiple Choice Questions

 

23. Which of these civilizations was the first to have a major impact on the modern world? 

A. Rome

B. Greece

C. France

D. Italy

 

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

 

24. When did music notation that we can read develop? 

A. First century

B. Fifteenth century

C. 

Second century B.C.

D. Twelfth century

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

 

25. The first major universities were established during 

A. the fifth century.

B. the sixteenth century.

C. the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

D. the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

 

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: medieval culture

 

26. Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I because 

A. a dove came down from heaven and whispered the sacred music in his ear.

B. he wrote all of it.

C. he is credited with ordering the simplification and cataloging of church music.

D. he decreed that music should be used in church.

 

Learning Objective: Discuss characteristics of the Gregorian chant

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Trace the development of the Gregorian chant

Topic: Gregorian chant

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

 

27. Gregorian chant is 

A. monophonic.

B. polyphonic.

C. homophonic.

D. organic.

 

Learning Objective: Discuss characteristics of the Gregorian chant

Learning Objective: Trace the development of the Gregorian chant

Topic: Gregorian chant

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

Topic: texture

 

28. Hildegard of Bingen was 

A. a queen and a composer.

B. a stage actress.

C. a noblewoman known as a patron of the arts.

D. the abbess of her convent and a composer.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Understand characteristics of music in works by Hildegard

Topic: Hildegard of Bingen

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

 

29. The most solemn service of the Catholic church, commemorating and reenacting the Last Supper, is called 

A. vespers.

B. the Mass.

C. the motet.

D. the propero.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: mass

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

 

30. Which of these sections of the Mass is not a part of the ordinary? 

A. Gospel

B. Kyrie

C. Credo

D. Sanctus

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: mass

Topic: sacred music

 

31. The development of polyphony was centered in 

A. England.

B. France.

C. Italy.

D. Rome.

 

Learning Objective: Describe early organum

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: polyphony

Topic: sacred music

Topic: texture

 

32. The earliest polyphonic works were called 

A. motets.

B. plainchant.

C. troubadour songs.

D. organum.

 

Learning Objective: Describe early organum

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: organum

Topic: polyphony

Topic: sacred music

 

33. The Messe de Nostre Dame, the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, was written by 

A. Guillaume de Machaut.

B. Léonin.

C. Hildegard of Bingen.

D. Pérotin.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Know key biographical facts about Guillaume de Machaut

Learning Objective: Understand characteristics of music in works by Machaut

Topic: Guillaume de Machaut

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: mass

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

 

34. The music of Machaut is representative of which of the musical style known as 

A. ars nova.

B. ars antiqua.

C. ars medieval.

D. Greek.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Know key biographical facts about Guillaume de Machaut

Learning Objective: Understand characteristics of music in works by Machaut

Topic: Guillaume de Machaut

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

Topic: sacred music

 

35. The texts for secular music in the Middle Ages were written in 

A. Latin.

B. French only.

C. the vernacular.

D. only in Italian.

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

 

36. Medieval traveling street musicians were called 

A. trouvères.

B. troubadours.

C. minnesingers.

D. jongleurs.

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: performers

Topic: secular music

 

37. The songs of the troubadours and trouvères were generally 

A. 

written in monophonic texture, but sometimes had instrumental accompaniment.

B. complex polyphonic settings, sometimes with texts in different languages.

C. never performed with instrumental accompaniment.

D. sung in theatrical settings.

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

Topic: texture

 

38. Setting each verse of a song to the same music is a formal structure called 

A. free form.

B. binary form.

C. strophic form.

D. ternary form.

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: form

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: musical techniques

 

39. Which of the following instruments would NOT have been used to accompany songs or dances in the Middle Ages? 

A. psaltery

B. lute

C. harpsichord

D. drums

 

Learning Objective: Describe secular songs and dances of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Recognize works in the instrumental forms and genres of the medieval era

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: instrument families

Topic: medieval music

Topic: secular music

 

40. The musical genre that added a second set of words to chant was 

A. the Mass.

B. plainsong.

C. the motet.

D. organum.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: musical techniques

Topic: polyphony

Topic: sacred music

 

41. The medieval genre that employed polytextual settings was 

A. the Mass.

B. organum.

C. the motet.

D. plainsong.

 

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval music

Topic: motet

Topic: musical techniques

Topic: polyphony

Topic: secular music

Topic: texture

 

 

Matching Questions

 

42. Match the composers with their biographical facts. 

|1. Guillaume de Machaut  |     Abbess, composer, and author  |  3 |

|2. Léonin  |     The earliest known composer at Notre Dame, who was involved with the development|  2 |

| |of polyphony  | |

|3. Hildegard of Bingen  |     The French composer who wrote the first complete polyphonic setting of the |  1 |

| |Ordinary of the Mass  | |

|4. Pérotin  |     The second composer whom we know was associated with Notre Dame and who wrote |  4 |

| |polyphonic music  | |

 

Learning Objective: Know key biographical facts about Guillaume de Machaut

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

Learning Objective: Understand characteristics of music in works by Hildegard

Learning Objective: Understand characteristics of music in works by Machaut

Topic: Guillaume de Machaut

Topic: Hildegard of Bingen

Topic: Léonin

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

Topic: secular music

 

43. Match the composition with its description. 

|1. "O pastor animarum"  |     Polyphonic Mass setting by Guillaume de Machaut  |  4 |

|2. "Tant m'abelis"  |     Monophonic Gregorian chant  |  3 |

|3. "Dies Irae"  |     A troubadour song  |  2 |

|4. "Agnus Dei" from Messe de Nostre Dame  |     Monophonic composition by Hildegard of Bingen  |  1 |

|5. "Viderunt omnes"  |     An organum/plainchant sung in Latin by a small group of men  |  5 |

 

Learning Objective: Recognize works in the instrumental forms and genres of the medieval era

Topic: fourteenth-century music

Topic: medieval culture

Topic: medieval music

Topic: sacred music

Topic: secular music

 

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