Music History I Review

Adam de la Halle was the first vernacular poet-composer whose complete works were collected in a manuscript.

After the split of the Roman Empire into the Western and Eastern empires, the language changed from Greek to Latin.

Music's role in worship was to carry the words, accompany the rituals, and inspire the faithful.

The definition of strophic is a song consisting of two or more stanzas sung to the same melody.

Epitaph of Seikilos is the oldest complete song in existence today.

Barbs, jongleurs, minstrels, troubadours, and trouvéres are all examples of musician performers in the vernacular.

Inscribed on a tombstone, Epitaph is an ___________, a short verse that makes a pointed remark.

A canso is a strophic song about love - specifically ______ ______, an idealized, discreet, and respectful love.

The PROPER chants have texts that remain the same, regardless of the time of year.

Ancient Greece is the earliest civilization that offers us enough evidence to construct a well-rounded music history.

The early church fathers also believed the value of music lay in its power to influence the ethos of listeners.

The following are all styles of text settings, except for:

Hildegard of Bingen was famous for her prophetic powers and revelations. What is the name of her morality play?

Music as a performing art was called _____________, from which the word melody is derived.

Because neumes couldn't be read by sight unless one knew the melody, heighted neumes were added to help read intervals.

During the political development of the countries of Western Europe, there was much economic progress.

The early church modes helped to establish various components of chant, including all the following EXCEPT:

The earliest chant was written down and recorded for dissemination throughout the various churches.

Epics such as Beowolf, The Iliad, and Paradise Lost were most likely sung and never written down initially.

The codification of liturgy and music under Roman leaders led to the repertory known as Gregorian chant.

The staff in chant notaion has ______ lines, one of which is designated by a clef as either middle C or the F below C.

What is the modern standard number of movements for the mass ORDINARY.

Instrumental music was a part of the early church service.

What legalized Christianity and allowed the church to own property?

Which of the following mass ORDINARY movements is the ONLY movement NOT in Latin?

The earliest evidence of music-making we have is from surviving instruments, such as a bone flute.

The following are all parts of the mass ORDINARY, EXCEPT for:

The office is a series of 8 services that (since the Middle Ages) have been celebrated daily at specific times.

The most significant body of vernacular song in th eMiddle Ages was the lyric tradition of the trouvéres and troubadors.

The early church drew on Greek philosophy and music theory, while fostering practical theory for training musicians.

Name this instrument.

Whose hand is this that helped establish the earliest format of our modern day notation?

The oldest incomplete song in existence comes from a papyrus reed dating from the 3rd c. BCE.

Orestes: Stasimon chorus, is the oldest incomplete song in existence. The text is by the great Greek playwright _______.

Which of the following are included in the most important musical instruments from this time period?

Guido's music treatise was a practical guide for singers and was called _________________.

In ancient Greek music, melody, rhythm, and meter of words were unconnected and random.

Most medieval songs are strophic, with several stanzas that are sung to the same melody.

Singers used three manners of performance for chant, including all the following EXCEPT:

What is the modern day name for the set of syllables that correspond to the pattern of tones that Guido established.

The invention of writing marked the end of the prehistoric period by adding a new type of evidence for our music history

People outside of the church read music just as well as the church musicians.

Greek writers believed that music could affect __________ (one's character or way of being/behaving).

In the earliest notations, signs called ______________ were placed above the words to indicate the melodic gesture.

As Christianity diversified, each branch/region evolved its own ______ - which included a church calendar, liturgy, etc.

Early chant was learned by ________ and sung from memory.

In ancient Mesopotamia, the Sumarians developed one of the first known forms of writing, known as _______________.

Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum is unusual because it is not a supplement to the mass or office of a certain feast.

After Charlemagne was crowned emperor of Rome, he and his successors promoted Gregorian chant as it spread.