Review - Middle Ages

What is Secular music?

• Music that accompanied mass required instrumental accompaniment.
• Music performed outside of the church, often used instrumentation
• Music performed within the church, exclusively with vocalists.
• Music performed in monasteries and only with vocal elements.

What does “Syllabic” refer to?

• A text setting in which each phrase is sung over multiple pitches.
• A text setting in which every syllable gets one pitch.
• A text setting where some syllables get several pitches.
• A text setting where one pitch lasts several syllables.

What is a Responsorial?

• When a soloist alternates with a choir in plainchant.
• When the entire choir sings together throughout the chant.
• When two choirs alternate sections within the same chant.
• When the choir alternates with an instrument.

What is Gregorian Chant?

• A secular music form used for public ceremonies.
• A style of chant that included harmonized choruses.
• A variety of plainchant that was the official music of the Catholic Church.
• A type of instrumental music used in Catholic liturgy.

This pope recognized the Catholic liturgy, including its music.

• Pope Leo III
• Pop Urban II
• Pope Gregory I
• Pope Innocent IV

What does Melismatic mean?

• A text setting in which some syllables are sung over many pitches.
• A setting where each syllable gets exactly one pitch.
• A text setting where every syllable matches one beat.
• A setting in which each phrase is sung over one pitch.

This person was a German nun who was the first female composer from whom musical works have survived.

• Joan of arc
• Eleannor of Aquatine
• St. Teresa of Avila
• Hildegard von Bingen

Between 700 & 900 CE, monks in monasteries began experiments with adding __________ to chants.

• Instruments
• Rhythm
• Solo verses
• Harmony

Who were the Troubadours?

• Traveling poet-composers active in noble courts and villages.
• Instrumentalists who played during church services.
• Group of monks who started writing secular music in convent.
• Church musicians who composed only sacred music.

Secular music was mainly passed __________, due to the illiteracy of the general population.

• Aurally
• Through paintings
• Through printed songbooks
• Through visual cues