C H EC K YO U R P R O G R E S S 1 Answer the questions in your notebook. a. What dates marked the start and the end of the Middle Ages? b. What were the two most powerful political , economic and cultural institutions in Europe during this period? c. Where were the cultural centres in this period? d. Which two artistic styles happened during the Middle Ages? 2 Def ine these terms in your own words in your notebook. a. Scale. b. Modal scale. c. Rhythmic mode. 3 Copy the correct sentences and correct the wrong ones. a. Medieval rhythmic modes combined high and low sounds. b. In the Middle Ages diatonic scales were already in use. c. Melodies composed in modal scales start and end with the f inal note and have a tenor note that organises the melody. 4 Write one of the main rhythmic modes and its combination of note values in your notebook. 5 Create an eight-bar melody using dactyl rhythm and the scale in Lydian mode. & w w w w w w w w 6 Draw a monophonic texture and the three types of polyphonic texture that you know in your notebook. 7 Copy each term and its def inition in your notebook. texture monophony polyphony a. A single melodic line. b. The way in which the melodic lines of a composition are combined . c. Several independent melodic lines that are performed simultaneously. 8 Find the odd one out and explain why. a. Trochee, diatonic, iamb, dactyl . b. Modal , f inal , minim, tenor. c. Monophony, contrar y, parallel , drone. 9 Copy and complete. In the Middle Ages, the f irst polyphonic pieces of music were very simple, but they became more over time and the dif ferent more independent of each other. In the Middle Ages, the voices went together in three ways, generating three dif ferent types of polyphony : The voices moved in motion , keeping the same between them . One voice moved and the other, called the , remained static. The voices moved in motion , or in directions . 10 Copy and complete the second melody in contrary motion, following the example in the f irst bar. 42 42 & # & # Œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙ Œ œ œ 11 Look at the score f rom the previous activity. What texture does it have? What interval is there between the f irst note of both voices? f inal note tenor note 26 I The Middle Ages
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