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Big Bangs - Music Notation
Guided Questions

1. _____________ is the technique of writing music down.

2. ______________ were the primarily literate class during the __________

____________.

3. The only music remaining from the Roman Period are the memorized chants known as

___________ ____________.

4. Whenever European culture wanted to reinvent itself, artists referred backed to the

__________.

5. ________ _________ ordered a codification of the entire chant repertoire in the early

7th century.

6. Prior to the technique of writing music down, all music was passed down _________

fashion.

7. ___________ are ticks, lines, and symbols above the text which would become the

earliest system used for writing music. They show the _______ of the melody.

8. _________ of __________ is the monk who made the fixed pitch red line come to

prominence as well as the do – re – me ____________ _________.

9. The fifth line of the musical staff was added in the ______ century.

10. Music was mostly _____________ before a written system was developed.

11. Written music gave way to a new profession, the _________________.

12. __ Part vocal texture became standard for a few centuries after the 13th century.

13. ________ ___________ _________, a musical prodigy, copied Allegri’s Miserere after

one listen.

14. ___________ is a graphic notation which shows a player where to put their fingers on a

stringed instrument like the Renaissance lute or the Chinese Pipa, and is still used today

for the guitar.