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Music History
World Music - Ancient Music
Worksheet
I.
Music in the Ancient World
Complete each statement using the word bank below.
1. Music from the period approximately ______________ to just after the fall of the
_______________ in 476 A.D. is known as ancient music.
2. _______________ was an advanced culture with technology, architecture and art.
3. _______________ is known as the cradle of civilization.
4. The area of land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was Mesopotamia
is found in the modern day country of _______________.
5. The earliest known written music, a tablet that was created around 2000 B.C., was
found in the ancient city of _______________.
6. _______________ was home to the first truly European music.
7. The Greek people approached music from a very ______________ perspective with
religious overtones.
8. In 340 B.C. _______________ laid the foundations of music theory.
9. The musical ideas that were developed by the Greeks were later preserved by the
_______________.
10. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 B.C, the cultural center of the
Western world began to move farther north into _______________.
Word Bank
Europe
Iraq
Romans
mathematical
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Aristotle
Roman Empire
4000 B.C
Ur
Greece
II.
Prehistoric Music
Answer each of the following questions.
1. What is the most likely way that music developed?
2. What did prehistoric music sound like?
3. What are some of the reasons that music developed?
4. What are some of the earliest instruments?
5. What was music like in Egypt?
Instruments:
Purposes:
6. What was music like in Mesopotamia?
Instrument:
Purposes:
7. What was music like in Greece?
Instruments:
Purposes:
8. What was music like in the Roman Empire?