Arts Toolkit: Music Handout

Multiple-Choice Questions

Medieval Plainchant

1. A chant style relying on one note and one syllable is
   1. melodic.
   2. syllabic.
   3. melismatic.
   4. neumatic.


2. Pope Gregory is famous for
   1. composing chants.
   2. directing monks who chanted.
   3. compiling chants.
   4. all of the above.


3. Most chants were sung in
   1. English.
   2. Spanish.
   3. Latin.
   4. Italian.
4. Hildegard was known as
   1. a scientist.
   2. a theologian.
   3. a composer.
   4. all of the above.

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