TExt Questions

LaDarius Brown
12-2-13

1. The Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the Hurrian city of Ugarit which date to approximately 1400 BCE.It is important because it helps old people out.
2. The Natya Shastra is an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance and music. It was written during the period between 200 BCE and 200 CE in classical India and is traditionally attributed to the Sage Bharata. The Natya Shastra is incredibly wide in its scope. It is important because it is used in drama, dancing, music and as well as acting.
3. Troubadours were poet-composers who served patrons at courts of the nobility.
4. Modes are how people communicate in music. Major mode.
5. Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments. Polyphonic means two things and monophonic means one.
6. Many early humans occasionally occupied caves, which have natural resonant echoes. No doubt that helped inspire people to chant and make other rhythmic sounds.
7. It shows religious importance. Not all music is the same.
8. Religion played a very important role in the daily life of ancient cultures. No there the same.
9. Music notation allows for multiple people to be able to learn to play a musical composition without hearing it as well as to have it survive long after the composer is dead. It also broadens a composer’s ability to create music without having to always memorize.
10. The Roman Catholic Church used the Gregorian Chant as their official music during the Middle Ages.