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Part 02

The Culture of Medieval Music (Chapter 4)

True / False Questions

1. The Christian church came to power during the height of the Greek civilization.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages

2. During the late Middle Ages, everyone from the middle class up learned to read as part of a church education.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: medieval culture

3. The invention of the printing press was one of the things that helped to bring independent thought to European culture.
TRUE

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: medieval culture

The reason the study of music usually begins around A.D. 500 is that earlier music is just not worth studying.

FALSE

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Topic: medieval culture
Topic: medieval music

5. Church doctrine during the Middle Ages encouraged celebrating life on earth and living it to its fullest.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: medieval culture

6. Music notation was developed during the Middle Ages.
TRUE

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: fourteenth-century music
Topic: medieval culture
Topic: medieval music
Topic: musical techniques

7. Plainsong is another term for Gregorian chant.
TRUE

Learning Objective: Discuss characteristics of the Gregorian chant
Learning Objective: Trace the development of the Gregorian chant
Topic: Gregorian chant
Topic: fourteenth-century music
Topic: medieval music
Topic: sacred music

8. The church modes are exactly the same as the major and minor scales.
FALSE

Topic: fourteenth-century music
Topic: key or tonality
Topic: medieval music

9. Gregorian chant was always sung in Latin.
TRUE

10. During the Middle Ages, women did not participate in music making in the church except within convents.
TRUE

11. In a convent, the musical portions of a worship service were still performed by men and boys because it was forbidden for women to speak up in church.
FALSE

12. Hildegard of Bingen wrote textbooks on medicine as well as music.
TRUE

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Topic: Hildegard of Bingen
Topic: medieval culture
Topic: medieval music

13. The sections of the Mass that contains texts that vary with the day of the church year are called the Proper.
TRUE

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Topic: mass
Topic: medieval music

14. The Ordinary of the Mass is the part that varies with each day.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: mass
Topic: medieval culture
Topic: medieval music

15. Pérotin was the earliest composer involved in the development of polyphony at Notre Dame.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Describe early organum
Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Topic: medieval music
Topic: musical techniques
Topic: polyphony
Topic: texture

16. All the music we have today from the Middle Ages is sacred music.
FALSE

Learning Objective: Examine developments and trends in medieval music
Learning Objective: Recall historical and cultural characteristics of the Middle Ages
Topic: medieval music
Topic: sacred music
Topic: secular music