General Period Characteristics
The Renaissance era of music took place during these dates.
1400-1600
The spreading of new music notation and ideas flourished during the Renaissance because of this invention.
Printing press
Non-religious music
Secular music
What is the name of the composer who wrote the Pange Lingua Mass?
Josquin Des Prez
Name 1 prominent artist from the Renaissance period.
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
What were the 3 categories of music in the Renaissance period?
Liturgical, Motets, Secular songs
This is a piece for a small choir of voices set to a short poem, usually about love, nature, or every day life.
Madrigal
Meeting of a group of cardinals from the Catholic Church to respond to the Protestant Reformation and reform internal church abuses.
Council of Trent
This composer was the leader of reforming music for the Catholic Church during the Renaissance.
Palestrina
These type of people were expected to be trained in music
Educated
What political movement that protested Catholic Church corruption was begun by the German theologian Martin Luther?
Protestant Reformation
What is the form of polyphony in which all the musical lines present the same musical phrase at different times?
Imitation
Sacred music played in a Catholic church service
Mass or liturgical music
Name one of the early Renaissance composers who were influential in the merging of the individual musical characteristics of the ifferent European countries into an international style.
John Dunstable
Guillaume DuFay
What country was the center of musical activity in the 16th century?
Italy
A period of Catholic revival and internal reform that began in the mid-16th century as a response to the Protestant Reformation.
Counter-Reformation
One technical change that may be noticed in late Renaissance music is the sound at the last chord at the end of sections. What was this change?
Before, only perfect intervals were used (octaves of perfect 5ths). The root, 3rd, and 5th were added to give the fullest sound possible.
A term used in madrigals meaning that there are contrasting moments of direct expression (example: chords changing from happy to sad in the same song).
Anthithesis
Guiding force in developing English madrigals. He was the owner of the monopoly on music printing for all of England.
Thomas Morley
People weren't considered socially accomplished if they did not have ________.
music training
This is another word for Renaissance
Rebirth
What is free imitation as opposed to strict imitation?
Free imitation-lines just share the same first few notes
Strict imitation-the lines are exactly the same
A composition for four voices that uses sacred text (usually in Latin), but isn't part of the mass.
Motet
The composer that experimented with instruments in 2 choir lofts facing each other (a Renaissance version of stereo sound). Master of the Canzona
Giovanni Gabrieli
Musical depiction of specific words
Word painting or text painting or text expression