Music Appreciation Midterm

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What 2 institutions vied for political control during the Middle Ages?
The Church and the Court
What began in the monasteries of Western European around the year 1000 C.E.?
musical notation, with note-heads placed on lines and spaces
The music heard at all medieval churches was what we today call Gregorian Chant, named in the honor of __________?
Pope Gregory the Great
Gregorian Chant
All of the above (is sung a cappella, has neither meter nor regular rhythms, is considered monophonic)
Given to the church as a tithe while still a child, this composer of Gregorian Chant later founded a convent and gave advice to popes as well as kings
Hildegard of Bingen
The period from 1150-1350 is often called the "Age of the Cathedrals" because:
much of the commercial wealth generated in the cities was used to construct splendid new cathedrals.
What is the term for the early polyphony of the Western Church
organum
All early polyphony written in rhythmic notation was composed in:
triple meter to honor the Holy Trinity
The foremost composer of fourteenth-century France was:
Guillaume de Machaut
The French secular songs of the Middle Ages created by the troubadours or trobairitz were usually about?
Love
During the Middle Ages, and later during the Renaissance, women:
were not allowed to sing in the church
In the late Middle Ages, the principal musical instrument of the monastery and Cathedral was the:
pipe organ
What instrument, because it could play a melody while also providing a basic chordal accomplishment, served the function of our modern guitar in medieval society?
vielle
Which musician is not considered a medieval composer?
Palestrina
Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning the Renaissance?
Religious music was more important than secular music