Gregorian Chant Quiz

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Answer these questions about Gregorian Chant.

 

1

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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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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