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Music in the Ancient World
1. All of the following are examples of early Greek music except:
A
Hymn to Mesomedes of Crete
B
Two Delphic Hymns ca. 150 B.C.
C
Hymn to Athena
D
A Skolion or drinking song ca. 150 B.C.
2. Music was used in Greek drama in all of the following ways except:
A
chorus commenting on the action
B
instrumental interludes
C
narratives sung by principal characters
D
ensemble finales requiring major characters to sing
3. All of the following are stringed instruments except:
A
aulos
B
kithara
C
lyre
D
oud
4. The history of music is a constant alternation between classicism and romanticism. These ideas go back to the ancient Greeks. The god associated with classicism is:
A
Hercules
B
Athena
C
Dionysus
D
Apollo
5. All of the following wrote plays that were accompanied by music except:
A
Aeschylus
B
Boethius
C
Sophocles
D
Euripides
6. Greek music was largely improvised during performance as opposed to being read from a score:
A
True
B
False
7. The aulos falls into what family of musical instruments:
A
strings
B
percussion
C
winds
D
brass
8. Which Greek writer is associated with the doctrine of ethos:
A
Ptolomy
B
Aeschylus
C
Pythagoras
D
Plato
9. The lyre is associated with which Greek god?
A
Zeus
B
Hercules
C
Dionysus
D
Apollo
10. Treatises on Greek music were either about the philosophy of music or the technical aspects of its construction.
A
True
B
False
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