Medieval Music

What is the setting to polyphonic music of portions of the main worship service of the Roman Catholic Church?

The only kind of music considered worthwhile was instrumental music.

The Age of Realism was characterized by a new respect for and faith in humankind.

A canon is a polyphonic composition in which all of the voices perform the same melody, beginning at different times.

What was invented when one independent melody was combined with plainchant?

What kind of music tends to be short-lived?

Which of the following is NOT another term for plainsong?

A drone is a sustained or repeated tone.

Most of the art during the Medieval period was based on what type of subject?

What is the term that describes a repeated bass motive?

After the fall of Rome in the 5th Century A.D., what became the only effective unifying force in the Western world?

What is the term that describes the text and formal arrangement of a religious service?

Which is NOT a name for the period in Western history between 500 and 1450 A.D.?

What type of music developed from the music of the Middle Ages?

Who is the most notable composer from the Medieval Period?

What was the official language of the Roman Catholic Church until 1965?

What term describes the production of music by several voices or instruments at the same pitch?

Which style of architecture is exemplified by elaborately decorated walls and towering spires?

Relationships between the music of the Middle Ages and that of our own time form the very basis of the study of ?

The two functions of Medieval art were to enhance worship and to instruct the illiterate faithful.