Chapters 1-8 Test

Question 0

What is an aulos?

Answer 0

Wind instrument
Round or flat double reed
Made of wood or bone

Question 1

What is a kithara?

Answer 1

Seven strings
Bigger than lyre
Resonator was Made of wood (lyre is turtle shell)

Question 2

What are the three fundamentals of music according to Boethius?

Answer 2

Musica mundana (spheres)

Musica instrumentalis (earthly vocal and instrumental music)

Musica humana (of the human body)

Question 3

What is Liturgy?

Answer 3

Collection of prayers, chants and readings

Question 4

Where does Coptic chant come from?

Answer 4

Egypt

Question 5

Where does Byzantine chant come from?

Answer 5

Mix of chant from Jerusalem and Roman pope

Question 6

Where does Ambrosian chant come

from?

Answer 6

Milan, Italy

Question 7

Where does Gallican chant come from?

Answer 7

France and Switzerland

Question 8

What are the canonical hours?

Answer 8

Set of 8 periods during the day of worship

Question 9

What is antiphonal singing?

Answer 9

Divided choir sings back and forth

Question 10

What is antiphon?

Answer 10

Movement in the psalm

Question 11

What are Vespers?

Answer 11

Afternoon service

Question 12

What did Charlemagne do?

Answer 12

Unified churches by encouraging notation of music and texts

Question 13

What is psalmody?

Answer 13

Act of singing the psalm

Question 14

What is the Proper and Ordinary of the Mass?

Answer 14

Proper changes each time

Ordinary stays the same

Question 15

What is the Introit?

Answer 15

Music that plays as the priests enter

Question 16

What is the gradual?

Answer 16

Happens with the psalm and antiphon verse and uses responsorial singing

Question 17

What are the starting pitches for natural, hard and soft hexachords?

Answer 17

Natural: C
Hard: F
Soft: G

Question 18

How did Guido think of the sol feg syllables?

Answer 18

He got them from a Latin hymn

Question 19

What is a trope?

Answer 19

Addition in music or text

Question 20

What does diabolus in musica mean?

Answer 20

Devil in music

Question 21

What is ordo virtutum

Answer 21

A musical play written by Hildegard

Question 22

What is a troubadour and trobairitz?

Answer 22

Troubadour is men, trobairitz are women.

French poet-musicians

Question 23

What is a Trouvere?

Answer 23

Troubadours that had moved to the North

Question 24

What is a canso?

Answer 24

Canso: Song of the south
Chanson: song of the north

Question 25

What is a chansonnier?

Answer 25

Book of songs

Question 26

Who is Countess Beatriz de Dia?

Answer 26

Fell in love with a troubadour while already married

Sang about him when he rejected her

Question 27

Who was Richard the Lionheart?

Answer 27

A trouvere from the north

Went on crusades for Holy Grail

Question 28

What is organum?

Answer 28

Polyphonic singing

Question 29

Why use oblique motion during early polyphony?

Answer 29

To avoid tritones

Question 30

Who is Anonymous IV?

Answer 30

A music theorist

Wrote of Leoninus

Question 31

What book did Leoninus write?

Answer 31

Magnus liber organi: book of polyphony

Question 32

What is organum purum?

Answer 32

Pure organum with 2 voices

Question 33

What is discant?

Answer 33

Voices sing different rhythms at same time