Unit THREE Music Text Questions

UNIT THREE: Music Appreciation Text Questions
Please complete the following questions. Answer the questions on this document. Submit your work as a file attachment. This means you complete all work in a word processing document (e.g., Microsoft Word) and attach the file using the dropbox tool.
The answers to the Text questions are worth 75 points.
75-70=A 69-64=B 63-56=C 55-50=D 49 or less = F

Review Questions (5 points each)
1. What is the Hurrian song? Why is it important?
The Hurrian song is a set of fragmentary relics as well as a nearly complete example from around 1400 BCE.
2. What is the Natya Shastra? Why is it important?
The Natya Shastra is a written discourse on the performing arts, including music, dance & stage performances. It is important because it gives detailed information of the instruments/music during that time in India
3. Who were troubadours? What was their music like?
Troubadours were traveling poet musicians who traveled from place to place for nobility. Their songs were morphonic and they used instruments like lyres & drums.
4. What are modes? Describe at least one type of mode.
Modes are alternative scales that can be derived from the familiar scale by starting on a different scale tone. One type of mode would be Dorian.
5. What is polyphonic music? How does it differ from monophonic music?
Polyphonic music is music that uses two or more independent melodies. It differs from monophonic music because monophonic uses 1 melody.
Critical Thinking Questions (10 points each)
1. Why did early humans develop music? What are some of the ways that they were thought to create music?
It is believed that early humans made music out of the natural rhythms around them (rain falling, animal noises) eventually people started using sticks and rocks and even their voices to create a very early form of music.
2. Why is the study of prehistoric and ancient music important? What can we learn from it?
The study of prehistoric and ancient music are important because if you want to create music or be considered well rounded in the music world you need to know where the music you create and love originates from even if its from thousands of years ago.
3. What roles did music play in the life of prehistoric and ancient people? Are the roles similar to or different from the roles that it plays today?
Ancient and prehistoric music were both often used for religious purposes which is also very popular for the church music today.
4. What were the effects of musical notation on music, society, and composers?
Musical notations allowed musicians to play a piece of music the exact same way it was created, also it helped when people were trying to make remakes of the compositions.
5. Describe medieval music's relationship with the Catholic Church. How was the music influenced by the Church?
At first they would just use Gregorian chants and those carried over to what is still used today in church music.