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Quiz about Music Stone Age to 18th Century

Music - Stone Age to 18th Century Quiz

This is mainly about instruments, Stone Age to Medieval.

A multiple-choice quiz by Katval. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Katval

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
348,045

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

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324

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. How would you play a rebec? Hint

Using drumsticks.

Using a bow.

Like a flute.

Plucking the strings.

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Question 2 of 10

2. A tromba marina is a ________ ? Hint

Woodwind.

String instrument.

Trumpet.

Zither.

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Question 3 of 10

3. The earliest music notation identified so far dates to about ____________ ? Hint

nine hundred years ago

six hundred years ago

2000 BC

200 BC

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Question 4 of 10

4. What would you do with a psaltery? Hint

Swear an oath on it.

Kneel on it.

Pluck the strings.

Read it.

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Question 5 of 10

5. A shawm is a ______________ ? Hint

choir

lute case

small hand drum

reed instrument

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Question 6 of 10

6. For which instrument was the first polyphonic music composed? Hint

Portative organs

Vielles

Violas

Positive organs

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Question 7 of 10

7. The names given to notes in a scale, as in the song "Doe a Deer", originated in the 11th century. _____ __ _______ is usually credited with its development.
Hint

El Sabio.

Guido of Arezzo.

Ademar de Chaban.

Benvenito of Cluny.

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Question 8 of 10

8. The Apaches called it "wood singing". In Apache - tsii" edo'a'tl. What is it? Hint

A carved wooden comb

A long wooden flute

A fiddle

Shaped wood whirled round on a string

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Question 9 of 10

9. Archaeologists found metal tines from this uniquely African instrument which they identified as being 1,000 years old. Hint

Marumba

Yoghlala

Mbira

Hlenga

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Question 10 of 10

10. Approximately how old is the earliest musical instrument ever found?
Hint

10,000 years

1,000 years

35,000 years

20.000 years

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How would you play a rebec?

Answer: Using a bow.

The Rebec is a bowed string instrument with one to five strings played on the arm or under the chin. It is an ancestor of the violin.

2. A tromba marina is a ________ ?

Answer: String instrument.

The Tromba Marina was a long medieval instrument with one string although sometimes two strings were used, tuned in unison, played with a bow. The musician stood with one end resting on the floor. The vibration of the bridge created a brassy buzz.

3. The earliest music notation identified so far dates to about ____________ ?

Answer: 2000 BC

The music was written in cuneiform on a clay tablet. It was found in Nippur, Iraq.

4. What would you do with a psaltery?

Answer: Pluck the strings.

The medieval psaltery was a flat sounding board with strings which were plucked, rather like a zither.

5. A shawm is a ______________ ?

Answer: reed instrument

The shawm was a double reed woodwind instrument made between the 13th and the 17th centuries. It is an ancestor to the modern oboe.

6. For which instrument was the first polyphonic music composed?

Answer: Positive organs

Positive organs were portable one-manual pipe organs which could be easily moved in one piece. They were popular in both sacred and secular music from the tenth well into the seventeenth centuries.

7. The names given to notes in a scale, as in the song "Doe a Deer", originated in the 11th century. _____ __ _______ is usually credited with its development.

Answer: Guido of Arezzo.

Guido of Arezzo, ( C995 - C1050 ) took the first notes of each line of a Latin hymn and used the syllables to represent 6 notes of the scale. si, (now te) was added later. He also added two lines to the two line staff in use at the time.

8. The Apaches called it "wood singing". In Apache - tsii" edo'a'tl. What is it?

Answer: A fiddle

It is a one or two stringed fiddle made from a hollow agave stalk carved in three sections. It has rhomboid sound holes cut into the stalk and is played using a bow.

9. Archaeologists found metal tines from this uniquely African instrument which they identified as being 1,000 years old.

Answer: Mbira

The mbira, also called the kalimba and known in the West as a lammelaphone or thumb piano is found all over sub-Saharan Africa. Believed to be a gift from the gods, people play the favourite tunes of their ancestors to lure their spirits to come visit.

10. Approximately how old is the earliest musical instrument ever found?

Answer: 35,000 years

A flute carved from a thin bird bone and dated to about 35 thousand years ago was found while excavating a cave in southern Germany.

Source: Author Katval

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