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Music in the Ancient World

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1. All of the following are examples of early Greek music except:
A Hymn to Mesomedes of Crete
B Two Delphic Hymns ca. 150 B.C.
C Hymn to Athena
D A Skolion or drinking song ca. 150 B.C.
2. Music was used in Greek drama in all of the following ways except:
A chorus commenting on the action
B instrumental interludes
C narratives sung by principal characters
D ensemble finales requiring major characters to sing
3. All of the following are stringed instruments except:
A aulos
B kithara
C lyre
D oud
4. The history of music is a constant alternation between classicism and romanticism. These ideas go back to the ancient Greeks. The god associated with classicism is:
A Hercules
B Athena
C Dionysus
D Apollo
5. All of the following wrote plays that were accompanied by music except:
A Aeschylus
B Boethius
C Sophocles
D Euripides
6. Greek music was largely improvised during performance as opposed to being read from a score:
A True
B False
7. The aulos falls into what family of musical instruments:
A strings
B percussion
C winds
D brass
8. Which Greek writer is associated with the doctrine of ethos:
A Ptolomy
B Aeschylus
C Pythagoras
D Plato
9. The lyre is associated with which Greek god?
AZeus
BHercules
CDionysus
DApollo
10. Treatises on Greek music were either about the philosophy of music or the technical aspects of its construction.
ATrue
BFalse
 

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