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MUS107 Quiz, Middle Ages Question 1 of 10     (worth 2

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MUS107 Quiz, Middle Ages

Question 1 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

The music heard on this track is:

	A.	a Vespers prayer set to music
	B.	"Viderunt Omnes" by anonymous
	C.	a troubadour chanson
	D.	Poésies de Guillaume de Machault et autres
	E.	"O successores" by Hildegard von Bingen

 

Question 2 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

Early Christianity was rooted in:

	A.	Druidism, especially the veneration and worship of ancestors and nature spirits
	B.	Hinduism
	C.	Greek mythology and the worship of Olympian gods
	D.	a belief in sacred power dwelling within animate and inanimate objects
	E.	Judaism
	F.	Islam

 

Question 3 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

Franco of Cologne was a/an:

	A.	medieval cleric, music theorist and inventor of the first music notation system to symbolize both pitch and duration
	B.	perfumer and designer of the original Frankincense cologne for resurrections
	C.	eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher
	D.	Dark Army captain and covert Illuminati operative
	E.	Renaissance composer and Christian mystic
	F.	Anglican theologian and the last great English composer before the twentieth century

 

Question 4 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

The ideal worship music in the Medieval Catholic Church was:

	A.	rondeau, virelai and ballade
	B.	troubadour and trouvères chansons
	C.	church bells and temple blocks
	D.	pipe organ music
	E.	Gregorian chant, i.e., a cappella vocal music sung in Latin and performed by highly trained male cleric musicians

Question 5 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

Gloria and Kyrie are part of the:

	A.	Gagaku (??) repertoire
	B.	Mass Ordinary
	C.	Vespers ritual
	D.	Proper of the Mass
	E.	troubadour repertoire

 

Question 6 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

Kuniburi no utamai (????) is:

	A.	Native Shinto religious music and imperial songs and dance
	B.	Chinese and South Asian music from the Tang Dynasty
	C.	music of Korea and Manchuria
	D.	an ancient vernacular tongue used in the Asian Orthodox mass
	E.	repertoire intabulation for solo biwa

Question 7 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

The prodigious rise of secular music in fourteenth century France and the Low Countries is known as the:

	A.	Jongleur epoch
	B.	Al-Andalus Dynasty
	C.	Age of Neolithic Muse
	D.	Trouvères redux
	E.	Ars Nova

Question 8 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

Troubadours from southern France and trouvères from northern France (select all valid answers):

	A.	were gypsy musicians and spice traders descended from Moorish royalty (Berbers from Morocco)
	B.	were poet-musicians active during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
	C.	are credited with composing the first European secular songs in the vernacular
	D.	were mostly noblemen and educated commoners
	E.	were authors of the first Lutheran hymns in German
	F.	are credited with composing the first European sacred songs in Latin

Question 9 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

What does a cappella mean?

	A.	to cap off, i.e., finish a piece of music
	B.	the Dark Army is in the Church
	C.	a mixed ensemble of musical instruments used during mass
	D.	vocal music without instrumental accompaniment
	E.	the worship and veneration of the Image of Edessa

Question 10 of 10     (worth 2.5 points)

The Moorish rulers of Al-Andalus (Medieval Spain) introduced:

	A.	new technologies, advanced mathematics, modern architecture and most of the instrument families to Europe
	B.	a hybrid of Judaism and Christianity to Medieval Europe
	C.	an accurate form of music notation known as te'amim
	D.	early prototypes of plainchant and organum to the Iberian peninsula
	E.	the use of Latin as a scholarly and religious tongue