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The Middle Ages
Roger Kamel Music an Appreciation Part II Exam flash cards
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Undergraduate 1
03/11/2013

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The phrase Middle Ages refers to the Period of Europen history spanning?
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450 - 1450
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The "dark ages" in Europe
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Began about 450 with the disintegration of the Roman Empire
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In the Middle Ages, jmost important musicians were
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Priests.
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Avirtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by
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monks in monasteries
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During the Middle Ages, women
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were not permitted to sing in church
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church officials expected monks to sing with
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proper pronciation and tone quality.
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Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing
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vigorously with manliness.
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The church frowned on instruments because of thier
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earlier role in pagan rites.
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The use of organs in church
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distracted the listeners from worship.
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What we know about instruments in church comes from
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the pictures and literary descriptions of the day.
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Most medieval music was
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vocal.
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At first, the organ was
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a primitive instrument whose keys were operated by heavy blows of the fist.
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In the middle ages the organ
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gradually evolved into a flexible instrument that could play intricate polyphonic music.
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We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the middle ages that
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instruments were used
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