Secular Music
Sacred Music
History
Vocabulary
Trivia
100
Secular music was sung or played in what types of places?
What are non-religious/church venues.
100
Sacred music was intended for what type of environment?
What are churches and worship services.
100
This type of behavior characterized the Middle Ages and led to it being called the Dark Ages.
What is extreme superstition and fear of new ideas.
100
Music written for and performed in the church.
What is plainchant. (Organum is also an acceptable answer).
100
The test for deciding whether or not someone was a witch in the Middle Ages.
What is throwing them in water - if they didn't drown they were witches (and killed), if they did drown they were innocent (but dead).
200
Medieval instrumental dance music.
What is an estampie.
200
Type of monophonic (no harmony) music written for the Church.
What is plainchant.
200
The three main social classes of the Middle Ages.
What are the clergy, the nobility, and the serfs.
200
A musical device where performers sing one word or syllable with many notes/pitches.
What is a melisma.
200
The first named female composer.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen.
300
The musical term for songs like "Sumer Is a Cumin In" or Row, Row, Row your Boat.
What is a round.
300
A type of polyphonic/harmonized music written for the Church using existing plainchant melodies.
What is organum.
300
In the early Middle Ages, this social class had the most political/social power.
What is the clergy.
300
A musical device where performers sing many words on a single note.
What is a reciting tone.
300
The story told of how Hildegard of Bingen was inspired to write her music.
What is fire came down from heaven and surrounded and inspired her.
400
Poets, composers, and musicians of the middle ages. King Richard the Lionhearted was considered one.
What is a troubadour.
400
Individuals who practice Islam consider the recitation of the Qu'ran to be singing or speaking?
What is speaking.
400
In the later Middle Ages, the rise in power of this group led to the troubadour tradition and increase in secular music.
What is the nobility.
400
A medieval performer, poet, and composer. Richard the Lionhearted was a famous one.
What is a troubadour.
400
The main difference between monophony and polyphony.
What is monophony is one melody, polyphony has several melodies that harmonize together.
500
A secular song not related to plainchant.
What is a chanson.
500
The purpose of a Hawaiian mele pule song/prayer.
What is the animation or bringing to life of icons made of wood, stone, or feathers.
500
The series of wars in the Middle Ages where the Christians tried to take control of the Holy Land. Troubadour songs often used this as a topic.
What are the Crusades.
500
The tower attached to a mosque where an Islamic mezzuin sings the Azan or call to prayer.
What is a minaret.
500
A disease that killed one in three people towards the end of the Middle Ages.
What is the Plague, or the Black Death.
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