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THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL MUSIC
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True or False? Guido D’Arezzo created the names of musical notes based on a hymn in honor of John the Baptist.
True
True or False? The four-line staff invented by Guido D’Arezzo is called a tetragram.
True
True or False? The first horizontal line in heighted notation was yellow, followed by a second red line.
False
True or False? Heighted notation introduced horizontal lines because musicians were interested in pitch.
True
True or False? Neumatic notation used symbols placed over the text to indicate the rise and fall of the voice.
True
How did Guido D’Arezzo create the names of musical notes?
 
By using a hymn in honor of John the Baptist
 
By using a mathematical formula
 
By taking the first letters of Latin words
 
By naming them after different instruments
What did Guido D’Arezzo invent?
 
The four-line staff (tetragram)
 
The five-line staff
 
The treble clef
 
The modern time signature
Who was Guido D’Arezzo?
 
A Benedictine monk and theorist
 
A famous composer
 
A Greek philosopher
 
A church organist
What was the defining characteristic of square notation in the 11th century?
 
Note values had a square shape
 
It used round noteheads
 
It was written without a staff
 
It used only two lines
How many lines were eventually used in heighted notation?
 
Four
 
Three
 
Five
 
Two
What colors were used for the first two horizontal lines in heighted notation?
 
Red and yellow
 
Blue and green
 
Black and white
 
Brown and orange
What was added to neumatic notation in the 9th century to create heighted or diastematic notation?
 
Neumes placed at different heights and horizontal lines
 
Note stems and flags
 
Rhythmic values
 
Bar lines
What was the main characteristic of neumatic notation in the 8th century?
 
It indicated the rise and fall of the voice with symbols
 
It used letters to represent notes
 
It had a four-line staff
 
It showed precise pitch
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