Sacred Music
Secular Music
Reformation
Counter-Reformation
Wild Card
100
This genre of sacred compositions still dominated in the Renaissance
What is the Mass?
100
The word that means "in the language of the people."
What is "the vernacular"?
100
This person was a central figure in the Protestant Reformation. He believed that music should have an important place in worship.
What is Martin Luther?
100
In response to the Reformation, the Catholic Church created this council to look into complaints about the church
What is Council of Trent?
100
During the Renaissance, a woman would mostly like earn money doing this, instead of composing.
What is performing (performer)?
200
A new type of sacred composition that featured a Latin text, but was NOT part of the Mass
What is the motet?
200
This new secular genre was for a small group of voices and often featured topics of love
What is the madrigal?
200
Luther believe that music should be sung in this language, instead of Latin.
What is "the vernacular"?
200
One of the complaints against music was that this musical texture made the words too difficult to understand
What is polyphonic texture?
200
This invention really helped knowledge and music to spread from one place to another more rapidly and in greater amounts.
What is the printing press? (1440)
300
These five sections form the "Ordinary" of the Mass
What is Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei?
300
Instrumental music becomes increasingly important, thanks in part to this social habit
What is dancing?
300
Luther also wanted the congregation to sing, so he composed this type of music that had simple melodies and a monophonic texture.
What is a "chorale," or Lutheran chorale?
300
Another complaint against music was that composer were using popular secular tunes such as this one as the musical materials for Masses.
What is the "L'homme arme"?
300
A special musical technique where one "voice" or melodic line echoes the same musical material one after the other
What is imitation (or imitative polyphony)
400
Composers wanted to unify the five sections of the Ordinary, so they often used these older melodies
What is plainchant? (Missa Pange Lingua)
400
Madrigal often use this technique to depict the meaning of the text through music
What is word painting?
400
Luther's most well-known chorale.
What is "Ein feste burg ist unser Gott." A Mighty Fortress is our God.?
400
This composer wrote sacred music in a way that aligned with the goals of the Counter-Reformation
What is Giovanni da Palestrina?
400
A serious instrumental composition that featured imitative polyphony.
What is a canzona?
500
One of the most important composers of sacred composers during the early Renaissance. Martin Luther admired him.
What is Josquin DesPrez?
500
This English composer wrote many madrigals, a textbook on music theory, and held the monopoly on publishing music in England.
What is Thomas Morely?
500
Living in the Baroque period, this composer would take Lutheran church music to new heights.
What is J.S. Bach?
500
AUDIO CLUE--Please provide the name of the composer, the title of the composition, and the type of composition it is.
What is Giovanni da Palestrina, Exultate Deo, motet.
500
This composer took advantage of the choir lofts at St. Mark's in Venice to create surround sound.
What is Giovanni Gabrieli?
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