Sacred
The texture in which almost all sacred music was written in during the Renaissance.
What is Polyphony?
This musical texture has many voices singing the same words at the same time but on different notes.
What is Homophonic?
This style of music was still the most popular during the Renaissance.
What is vocal music?
This item made the spread of secular music cheap and easy.
What is the printing press?
The name of the age before the Renaissance.
What is the Middle Ages?
What is the Medieval Period?
This is the name of a song written in Latin, but it isn't part of the Mass.
What is a Motet?
A Secular piece of vocal music written for 3 to 6 voices.
What is a Madrigal?
The century when instrumental music started to become popular.
What is the 16th Century (the 1500s)?
The system in which composers were employed.
What is patronage?
The years of the Renaissance.
What is 1450-1600?
Almost all music was sung this way (without instrumental accompaniment).
What is A Capella?
The country where Madrigals originated.
What is Italy?
What is 2/4 or 4/4?
Music was still lacking this during the Renaissance. (think more a gentle flow)
What is a clearly defined beat?
What is a time signature?
What is a steady beat?
This city was the center of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
Two parts of the Mass Ordinary.
What is the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei?
The language Madrigals were originally written in.
What is the composer's native language?
The meter of this Galliard.
What is 3/4 time?
The phrase we use when the music matches the words being sung.
What is word painting?
This family, though not the only powerful family, fell in and out of power during the Renaissance.
Who were the Medicis?
Worth 800 points:
This is what we call the Catholic Churches response to the Protestant Reformation
What is the Counter-Reformation?
The year Madrigals started to become popular in England.
What is 1588?
An instrumental form developed during the Renaissance.
What is Theme and Variation?
If you were considered an educated person during the Renaissance, this is something you should have been able to do.
What is play an instrument?
What is read musical notation?
The three humanities.
What are Rhetoric, Grammar, and Logic?