What is meant by Monophony? Polyphony?
Make an analogy between Polyphonic music and Architecture.
Contrast Polyphony and Monophony by the use of lines.
What was the nature of the researches in music before 1000 A. D.?
How did the Greek magadizing influence musical development?
What is Organum? Secular Organum?
Who were the prominent musicians of this period?
How did the Church influence musical development?
The teacher or one of the pupils may give a summary of the Gothic style
of architecture. Another pupil may give the most noted historical
events coinciding with this period; also historical characters.
Scholarship was cherished principally in the Church and in the
monasteries, hence the predominance of Churchmen in the early history
of music. Hucbald lived during the time of Alfred the Great; Guido
died 16 years before the battle of Hastings (1066). A useful device in
fixing the details of a lesson is for the teacher to arrange that the
pupils shall question him, the questions to be of such a nature as to
show that they know the lesson thoroughly.