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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 |