Music Composers

Question 1

What was Guido d’Arezzo’s time?

Answer 1

c. 991-c. 1050

Question 2

Who was Guido d’Arezzo?

Answer 2

Italian, a Benedictine monk who was one of the first recorded composers, simply because there was no invented way to keep track of composers or music before his time

Question 3

What was significant about Guido d’Arezzo?

Answer 3

Guido was not, strictly speaking a significant composer. This only known original work is the hymn that he used as his teaching aid. He assigned each note of the scale a name and created an innovative notated hand system to make it easy to learn chants

Question 4

What kind of music did Guido d’Arezzo compose?

Answer 4

Italian church music

Question 5

Name the composer, “Music is the sacred sound through which all creation resounds”

Answer 5

Hildegard of Bingen

Question 6

Who is Hildegard of Bingen?

Answer 6

A woman: mystic composer, scholar, theologian, preacher and scientist from 1098-1179, German.