Everyday Life
What is an apartment?
This now-rare instrument was played across Eurasisa for at least 2,000 years
What is the bagpipe?
The national anthem was composed during this period of turmoil.
What is the French Revolution?
This was the primary church music of the early Medieval period.
What is Gregorian chant?
The French are very fond of their work week, which is this long.
What is 35 hours?
What is Alsace?
The anthem takes its name from its popularity with soldiers from this city.
What is Marseille?
This Emperor is responsible for spreading the most famous form of early church music.
Who was Charlemagne?
This societal problem is worse than in the United States or Germany, but not as bad as Italy or Spain.
What is unemployment?
Due to its connections to fishing and sailing, Normandy has a history of this kind of folk song.
What is a sea shanty?
A relief of soldiers singing the anthem can be seen on this prominent monument.
What is the Arc de Triomphe?
The addition of a line of harmony to early chants produced this musical form.
What is organum?
This entity is made up of European countries that use the same currency.
What is the Eurozone?
Corsica is known for this variety of choral music.
What is polyphony/Corsican polyphony?
This pair, separated by perhaps 50 years, are the first French composers whose names we know.
Who were Leonin and Perotin
This langue d'Oc is still spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in Southern France
What is Occitan?
The unkeyed strings on a hurdy-gurdy are known as this.
What is a drone?
The anthem was composed specifically during this military conflict.
What was the War of the First Coalition.
This is the musical term for a singer singing one syllable over multiple notes
What is melisma?