Unit 4- Early Music The Medieval World Gregorian Chant The Renaissance Renaissance Composers Assignments
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Assignments:

  1. Medieval Instrument Report

  2. Is it or Not?

  3. Renaissance Report

  4. Name That Tune

  5. Quiz over Unit 4


Assignment #1 - Medieval Instruments Report    

Visit this website to investigate medieval instruments: https://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instruments

Create a short presentation about 1 instrument. You may use MS Word, Powerpoint, google docs or create a webpage, blog or wiki (or other application WITH PRIOR APPROVAL of instructor).
 

View the Scoring Rubric to see the expectations for the assignment:

Click here to view a previous student's work:                                 


Assignment #2 - Is it or Not? Quiz 

Listen to music examples and tell whether they are Gregorian Chants or not (based on this definition by Donald Grout). And if they are not, tell why they are not.
There are also a few questions about other items presented in the lessons covering the Medieval Times and Music & Gregorian Chant


Assignment #3: Renaissance Period Report   

Create a presentation on the Renaissance Period. You may create this presentation in MS Word or PowerPoint, in a webpage, blog or wiki. You may use another application to create the project if you ask for and receive teacher approval PRIOR to submission.
Write a report about the Renaissance Style Period.
This report should NOT be about the music of the Renaissance Period, but rather the world events, painters &/or sculptors, authors and buildings of this time period

The presentation should contain information about the following 4 areas:
History (World Events)
Art (Include famous artists of the period and an example of the their work)
Architecture (Describe the characteristics of the period, and include at least 1 example of the architectural style of the period)
Literature (Include famous authors of the period and an example of their work).

See the scoring rubric for expectations.                       

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Assignment #4 - Name that Tune   

You will need to identify music presented in this Unit. This is a matching test - you will need to match a samples of music to the its' name &/or composer.

There are listening examples in this quiz  - make sure your can hear .mp3 files BEFORE starting the quiz. Test for audio

The listening examples in the test will come from this list - BE SURE you can identify these songs!: 

Anonymous: Frog Galliard for Recorders
Gregorian Chant -Kyrie
Morely -Sing_We_And_Chant_It
di Lasso - Jubilate Deo
Palestrina - Pueri Hebraeorum
Palestrina - Kyrie from Pope Marcellus Mass
William Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus
Gabrieli -Canzon septimi toni a 8 for Brass

Assignment #5 - Quiz over Unit4   
 

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The password for this quiz is 123
 

You will need to answer questions about the material presented in this Unit. There are no listening examples in this quiz.