MEDIEVAL PERIOD

The medieval era was between ______ and _____.

• 400 - 1600 AD

• 500 - 1400 AD

• 1400 - 1600 AD

• 500 - 1200 AD

201 - 300 is the ____ 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