History of Western Music Semester 1 2020/2021

Name: Birgitta Claire Abeysekra Matric No.: U2004472 (Weightage: 10% of the final marks)

Assignment 1

Chapter 1 Music in Antiquity

1. How were the historical traces of the music from past eras survived?
They survived through physical objects, visual images, writings, and music notation.
2. Name the instrument that was used especially for Greek processions, sacred ceremonies,
and theatre.
The kithara.
3. Name the two disciplines in education that were stressed by both Plato and Aristotle for
an equal balance.
Gymnastics to discipline the body and music to discipline the mind.

4. Who has written the earliest surviving treatises on Greek music theory?
Aristoxenus
Chapter 2 The Christian Church in the First Millennium

5. Who was the most revered authority on music in the Middle Ages?
Boethius

6. What was the treatise, written by Guido of Arezzo, a practical guide for singers that
covered notes, intervals, scales, modes, melodic composition, and improvised polyphony?
Micrologus

7. Who devised a set of syllables for students to use in sight singing which was knows as
solmization?
Guido of Arezzo

Chapter 3 Roman Liturgy and Chant

8. Name the 5 musical parts in the Mass Ordinary?

Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Credo
9. Who composed the earliest surviving music drama that is not attached to the liturgy?
Hildegard of Bingen

10. Name the final syllable of "alleluia" that is often extended by an effusive melisma.
Jublius