Middle Ages: Sacred music

Question 1

Medieval monasteries played a central role in the preservation of knowledge from earlier cultures.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The church was especially important in shaping secular music of early times.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Hildegard of Bingen was an abbess who wrote church music.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Much music is left to us today from greek and roman civilizations.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The early music of the Christian church was influenced by Hebrew music.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The chants of the church used only the major and minor scale patterns found in later music.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The mass of the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated daily and includes a Proper, that is appropriate to that feast as well as the ordinary, which remains the same for all feast days.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The Notre Dame school is renowned for early polyphonic writing called organum.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Lèonin and Pèrotin are important composers from the St.Peter’s school of organum in Rome.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The cloistered life in the Middle Ages was open only to men.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Music of the Middle Ages was based on our modern day major and minor scales.

Answer 11

False