Your task is to choose ONE of the videos and answer the following questions in paragraph form. The paragraph should answer all the questions below and be exactly 300 WORDS. Please use all of the questions below to help you describe the piece of music that you choose. Please check your grammar.

1. Medieval Gregorian Chant. Composer: Anonymous. Year unknown 450-1400 AD

2. Medieval. Composer: Hildegard Von Bingen. Columba Aspexit Year: circa 1000 AD

3. Medieval. Composer: Perotin. Organum Alleuia Nativitas. Year: 1200 AD

For additional, thorough research, see Lumen Learning's section on Middle Ages Music: 

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-musicapp-medieval-modern/chapter/introduction-to-music-in-the-middle-ages/

1. What are the performing forces? Only voices, only instruments, or a combination of the two?

2. Do you notice the use of a drone? 

3. How would you characterize the rhythm? Does it seem to float or is there a clearly defined beat?

4.  Do you hear more than one part, or in other words, is it polyphonic?

5.  If it is vocal music, is the text sacred or secular? 

6. What do we know about the history of this piece of music? Describe as much as you can.

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

1 1 The music incorporates the purposeful relationship of sounds by and for people In the broadest depiction these sounds are made by individuals in three ways 1 through the human voice the instrument ... View the full answer