1. What are the earliest sources for understanding ancient music-making?

notation on cave walls

oral traditions
surviving instruments and images
writings about music

2. What instruments were found when archaeologists explored the royal tombs at
Ur?
trumpets
flutes
frame drums
lyres

3. The aulos is a
brass instrument.
woodwind instrument.
string instrument.
percussion instrument.

4. How do we know that ancient Greek musicians probably learned music primarily
by ear?
The notation system was not yet developed for use in practical, performance
situations.
Notation did not yet exist.
Images from ancient Greece rarely show musicians reading music while playing.
Pythagoras wrote of the virtues of playing music by ear.

5. The lyre was associated with which god?

Apollo
Aphrodite
Dionysus
Hades

6. Surviving Greek music is

monophonic, and it was performed that way.
polyphonic, though the parts may not have always been performed together.
monophonic, but it might not have been performed that way.
heterophonic, but there may have been moments of monophony.
7. When was melos considered perfect?
when the rhythms followed iambic pentameter
when a musician won competitions with it
when melody, text, and movement were conceived together in a unified work
when it was in Dorian mode

8. Who is considered the founder of Greek music theory?

Pythagoras
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

9. Which of the following is credited to Pythagoras?

the doctrine of imitation
arguments that education should include balanced amounts of gymnastics and music
discovering the mathematical ratios of intervals recognized as consonant
establishing the Pythian Games

10. The word “melody” derives from a Greek word, melos, meaning
music as a competition.
music as a performing art.
music as a religious practice.
music as a science.

11. According to Greek writers, what is ethos?

a person’s ethical character or way of being and behaving
a woodwind instrument
a term for a musical competition
a specific set of personality traits that were seen as ideal to ancient Greeks

12. With what was Greek musical rhythm closely aligned?

military cadences
rhythms heard in the natural world
poetic rhythm
rhythm of the planets

13. What is the correct definition of tetrachord?

a sounding interval of a fourth
a grouping of four notes that span a perfect fourth
a chord that contains four notes

14. Which of the following reflects a chromatic tetrachord in Greek theory?

two semitones on the bottom, with a tone and a half on the top
two approximate quarter tones, with an interval the size of two tones on the top
all semitones
two whole tones followed by a semitone

15. Which genus did Aristoxenus claim was oldest and most natural?
diatonic
enharmonic
chromatic

16. How many species of octave existed in Greek music?

Nine three seven five

17. Greek octave species lacked what aspect of medieval modes?

the modes with the prefix “hypo-”
the arrangement of the octave into tones and semitones
the names
a final note, on which a melody usually ended

18. Which is the correct definition of tonoi?

collectively, all the names of the pitches
a scale or set of pitches within a specific range or region of the voice
the complete set of pitches at a composer’s disposal when writing music

19. Which of the following is a genus of Greek tetrachord?

Lydian
enharmonic
whole tone
pentatonic

20. The Greater Perfect System combined how many tetrachords?

Two one four three