Ancient Rome and Medieval Period

Question 1

Monophony

Answer 1

a single melodic line without harmony

Question 2

What happened in 313 and who was emperor?

Answer 2

Christianity was legalized and Constantine was emperor

Question 3

What happened in the year 379-380 and who was emperor?

Answer 3

Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire and Theodosius was emperor

Question 4

What happened in the year 476 and what precipitated the culminating event?

Answer 4

476 was the fall of Rome, this was caused by the invasion of the Huns pushing up against the Germanic Tribes who then attacked and conquered major portions of the Roman Empire

Question 5

Role of music and how it was performed in the early church

Answer 5

Music was a servant of religion; instrumental music was condemned, only unaccompanied singing was allowed

Question 6

Pope Gregory

Answer 6

There is no evidence that Pope Gregory played any role in composing chants. The english revered Gregory as the founder of the church, development of chant repertory attributed to him (Gregorian chant)

Question 7

Syllabic

Answer 7

A styles of singing in which each syllable of text has only one or two notes; the opposite of melismatic singing

Question 8

Melismatic

Answer 8

many notes to just one syllable

Question 9

Religious music

Answer 9

anything that has been written as devotional to any given faith

Question 10

Secular

Answer 10

music that is not religious in nature and is connected with worldly affairs

Question 11

Key power structures

Answer 11

The catholic church, Monks and Nuns (religious music), Religious music was supported by the church.

Question 12

4 characteristics of Gregorian chant

Answer 12

1) The music is religious
2) the text is in latin
3) the chants start and end on the same note
4) the chants are monophonic

Question 13

Hildegaard von Bingen

Answer 13

1) Experienced visions as a child
2) became a benedictine nun at the age of 15
3) theologians confirmed her visions

Question 14

4 main composers from the medieval period

Answer 14

Anonymous, Hildegard Von Bingen, Perotinus, Guillaume de Machaut

Question 15

The year construction began on Notre Dame

Answer 15

1163

Question 16

Where did Perotinus work?

Answer 16

Notre Dame

Question 17

Where did Guillaume de Machaut work?

Answer 17

Reim Cathedral

Question 18

What does SATB stand for

Answer 18

Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass

Question 19

5 parts of the Ordinary of the mass (Latin)

Answer 19

1) Kyrie Elesion
2) Gloria
3) Credo
4) Agnus Dei
5) Sanctus

Question 20

5 parts of the Ordinary of the mass (English)

Answer 20

1) Lord have mercy
2) Glory to god
3) I believe
4) Holy, holy, holy
5) Lamb of god

Question 21

What was the Aberfan Disaster

Answer 21

In the 1960s an avalanche of tipped coal mixed with water slid down a hill in Aberfan and wiped out everything in its path. 144 people were killed.

Question 22

Where did it occur?

Answer 22

Whales, UK

Question 23

Who did it affect?

Answer 23

The whole town

Question 24

Name of the composer who wrote the Lament for the Valley as a memorial for the victims.

Answer 24

Karl Jenkins

Question 25

Which part of the Ordinary of the Mass does the composer use in the Lament for the Valley

Answer 25

Agnus Dei

Question 26

Why did Karl Jenkins use a children’s choir for this memorial

Answer 26

Because mostly children were killed in this disaster