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Music is composed of Rhythm,
Melody, and Harmony. Which of these elements is the only one present
in Gregorian Chant? |
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2. |
The legend is that Pope
Gregory dictated the whole of Gregorian Chant as given to him by
the Holy Spirit on his shoulder in the form of a ____. |
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3. |
Monks actually collected
and wrote the music using a forerunner of modern music notation.
The lines and squiggles indicating rise, fall, and duration of pitch
are called ________. |
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4. |
Charlemagne, Holy Roman
Emperor of most of what is now called Europe directed the monks
in writing down and preserving the history of the past. His head
librarian and scribe was _______. |
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page to find the answer!
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5. |
Both Charlemagne and Pope
Gregory I felt the church would be more ______ if the music and
services were the same wherever the church existed. |
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6. |
________________was an
Italian musician and musical theorist who invented a system of squared
notation on lines and spaces. |
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7. |
Before the time of music
notation, music was learned by ear and sung by "______",
or from memory. |
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8. |
In 1994 a CD of monks
from a ____________ monastery in central Spain, the monastery of
Santo Domingo de Silos, sold over 300,000 copies, making two platinum
and one gold disc in pop chart sales. |
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9. |
Using d'Arezzo's method a singer could
be trained in ___ ______, instead of ten or more. |
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10. |
The monk's CD even edged out the Cuban
vocalist ________ _________ from the number one spot in the Spanish
charts for six consecutive weeks. The press called it "Frock
Rock." |
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