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What instruments did prehistoric cultures leave behind
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Lyre, harp
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Who is the earliest known Mesopotamian composer?
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Enheduanna
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Did Babylonians read music as they performed?
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No
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What was the Greek instrument associated with the god Apollo?
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Lyre
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What was the Greek instrument associated with the god Dionysus?
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Aulos
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In what ways were women allowed to perform music in ancient greece?
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Prostitutes were allowed to play the aulos.
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What is Heterophony?
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A variant of the melody played simultaneously
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Rhythm in Greek music was tied to what?
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The words of the text
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Which aspects of music were addressed in Ancient Greek writings?
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Music theory and the nature of music, its effects and its proper uses.
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What was the Doctrine of Ethos?
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Music affects ethos: based on pythagorean view of music as a system of pitch and rhythm.
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About how many sources of noted music from ancient Greece survive?
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45
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What was the Theory of imitation?
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Music that imitated a certain ethos aroused that ethos in the listener
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What was the greater perfect system?
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Four tetra chords with an added low note for a two octave system
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Where did the names for the Ancient Greek modes come from?
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Regions in the Greek world.
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What were the three genera of tetrachords in Greek music theory?
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Diatonic, Chromatic, Enharmonic
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What evidence survives in music of ancient Rome? Any music?
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Images, instruments, and thousands of written descriptions. Including the tuba and other brass instruments from the Etruscans. No music
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What kinds of instruments survive from Ancient Rome?
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Tibia, Tuba, Cornu, Buccina
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The person who first recognized the numerical relationships that underlay musical intervals?
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Pythagorus
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The eight church modes are defined by what?
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Final, reciting tone, and range
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What was the Schola Cantorum?
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The choir that sang when the pope officiated at observances. School of singers
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First century Jewish music was performed by whom?
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A choir of Levites at the Temple of Jerusalem.
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Who invented Solmization? (Solfege)
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Guido of Arezzo
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Guido's hexachords can begin on what pitches?
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G, C, F
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The Medieval church modes derived from what source?
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They derived from chant
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Psalms are typically preceded and followed by short chants called:
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Intonation and Termination
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How are Antiphonal, responsorial and direct chants performed?
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Antiphonal: two halves of the choir call and response, Responsorial: Choirs responds to a soloist, Direct: choir sings
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What are the five ordinary sung parts of the mass?
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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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Notker Balbulus is known for what?
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The most famous writer of sequence texts.
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What do the terms syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic mean?
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Syllabic: every syllable has a note, Neumatic: one whole neume per syllable, Melismatic: Long melodic passages on a single syllable.
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