Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 3: Secular Music in the Middle Ages

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages
A)performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
B)lived on the highest level of society.
C)played instrumental dances on the drums.
D)always had steady work.
2
The notation of the secular songs of the Middle Ages does not indicate
A)rhythm.
B)pitch.
C)duration.
D)dynamics.
3
The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during
A)the ninth century by monks for church services.
B)the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by French nobles called troubadours and trouvères.
C)the fourteenth century by Guillaume de Machaut and his contemporaries.
D)the fifteenth century by wandering minstrels called jongleurs.
4
Most of the French secular songs of the Middle Ages dealt with
A)the Crusades.
B)spinning.
C)dancing.
D)love.
5
In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody line is played on a rebec, a
A)medieval drum.
B)bowed string instrument.
C)tubular wind instrument.
D)plucked string instrument.
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