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An overview of the history of medieval music
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1
What is the oldest known artifact that contains ancient music notation?
Tablet of Euridius
Epitaph of Seikolos
Old thing of the Past
Cornu of Corinth
2
What is the name of the stringed instrument that is played with a "pick" (accompanimental)?
Harp
Lyre
Aulos
Syrinx
3
Which saint was skeptical about the seductive power of music in the church?
St. Ambrose
St. Augustine
St. Basil
St. Gregory
4
What is a group of six notes commonly used in medieval music called?
Monochord
Solmization
Hexachord
Pitch set
5
What book contained the complete chants for the Mass (Ordinary and Proper)?
Confessions
Gradual
Ut queant laxis
Ordo virtutum
6
What is a class or category that classifies the inner notes within a tetrachord?
Family
Modes
Quadrivium
Genus
7
Who is known for organizing her compositions into two large collections?
St Margot
Beatriz de Dia
Joan Pinkston
Hildegard von Bingen
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Was this study group helpful in any way?
no
YES
YES
YES
9
What does "neume" mean?
Gestures
Gnome
Pitch
Note
10
What is the monophonic sacred music of the Church?
Chanson
Carmina burana
Plainchant
Cantiga
11
Who discovered the relationship between musical sound and numbers?
Pythagoras
Plato
Galileo
Archimedes
12
Where were the Troubadours from?
Italy
Southern France
Northern France
Germany
13
What Council eliminated all troped texts and all but four Sequences from the liturgy?
Council of Minne
Council of Carthage
Council of Cardinals
Council of Trent
14
What is the mnemonic device used to help students learn solmization syllables?
Gamut
Guidonian Hand
Antiphons
Custos
15
What is the simultaneous sounding of independent parts of equal importance?
Monophonic
Harmonic
Mellismatic
Polyphonic
16
What do you call descending successions of four notes spanning the interval of a fourth?
Tetra-modal
Tetrahedron
Tetraphony
Tetrachords
17
What is the series of services held at specified times throughout the day?
Hermannus Contractus
Mass and Chants
Divine Office and Hours
Quem quaeritis
18
What is the structure of bar form?
A,A',A"
ABCDEFG
AAB
ABACABA
19
What doctrine says that music is capable of causing certain emotions and behaviors?
Doctrine of Pythagoras
Doctrine of Seikolos
Doctrine of Ethos
Doctrine of Pathos
20
What is the process that medieval singers would use to modulate between modes?
Troping
Prosula
Solmization
Mutation
21
Who of the following is not a Minnesinger (German singer and composer)?
Bernart de Ventadorn
Tannhauser
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Walther von der Vogelweide
22
Which pope is credited with the inspiration for the most popular plainchant in the church?
Pope Constantine
Pope Gregory
Pope Francis
Pope Innocent
23
What is the title of the most famous collection of Latin songs?
Ordo virtutum
Quem quaeritis
Carmina burana
The BJU Handbook
24
How did one indicate a cadence when singing plainchant?
a jubilus
hold a sign that says the word "cadence"
a drop in pitch
a rise in pitch
25
What is the name of the exuberant melodies sung on the final syllable of the word "alleluia"?
Gamut
Psalm tone
Antiphon
Jubilus
26
Which of the following is not found in the Ordinary Mass?
Gloria
Kyrie
Alleluia
Sanctus
27
What are the songs of the Iberian Peninsula called?
Chanson
Cantigas
Trope
Alla Mazurka
28
Music is a study found in the...
Quadrivium
Trivium
29
What is my last name?
Magenta
Black
Off-white
Green
30
What do you call adding successive layers of commentary to an original source (or a score)?
Neumes
Glossing
Analyzing
Troping
31
What is the name of the body of texts and actions prescribed for Christian worship services?
Mass
Liturgy
The Creed
Confessions
32
What is the medieval style of music where a single syllable is sung to many notes?
Custos
Neumatic
Syllabic
Melismatic
33
What is the entire range of conceivable pitches called?
Ambitus
Gamut
Finalis
Anitphon
34
Who was the most famous troubadour who got banished because of closeness with the ladies?
Walther von der Vogelweide
Peire Vidal
Tannhauser
Bernart de Ventahorn
35
What are the two components of bar form?
Stollen and Custos
Stollen and Abesang
Abesang and Chanson
Custos and Chanson
36
What is the ending pitch of a song called?
Finalis
Ambitus
Antiphon
Final cadence
37
Who were the German speaking singers of courtly love?
Minnesinger
Trouveres
Troubadours
Minstrels
38
What's the name of the 20th century anthology of the different chants from the Mass and Office?
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Ordo virtutum
Carmina burana
Liber Usualis
39
What is another name for the Eucharist?
Divine Right
Party!
Holy Communion
Prayer
40
What is the name of the Catholic rite of northern Italy who is named after a saint?
Visigothic
Mozarabic
Gallican
Ambrosian
41
Liturgical dramas were...
dramatic presentations that were banned by Gregory I.
dramatic presentations that were part of worship.
religious presentations were performed in the court.
the only "checkable" form of BJU entertainment in 1947.
42
What is a musical or textual addition to an existing chant?
Solmization
Prosula
Glossing
Troping
43
Where do the trouveres live?
Italy
Southern France
Germany
Northern France
44
What are songs with texts not found in the scripture?
Canticles
Hymns
Poems
Chansons
45
Who introduced the rules that governed monastic life?
Pope Gregory I
St. Benedict
Charlemagne
St. Basil
46
Who organized the eight mode system into an easy to use mnemonic device?
Peire Vidal
Augustine of Hippo
Guido of Arezzo
Hildegard von Bingen
47
"Notker Balbulus" is one of the earliest accounts of...
a trope.
glossing.
musical notation.
liturgical drama.
48
What is the "Chanson de Roland" about?
an innocent damsel torn between good and evil
the tragic love story of Roland LeBeau
the sleep deprived BJU music student
the heroic adventures of one of Charlemagne's knights
49
Diastematic music was characterized by the placement of neumes...
on the five lined staff.
on two straight lines.
in a general contour.
on one straight line.
50
Which mode has an ambitus that runs an octave above the finalis?
Plagal mode
Authentic mode
Fake mode
Phrygian mode
