What is nationality of most early Renaissance composers?
100
Motet
Mass
What are two styles of sacred music in the Renaissance?
100
Unaccompanied singing
What is A Cappella
100
What is the Printing Press
What invention alters the course of music distribution in the 15th century?
200
Dunstable
Du Fay
Ockeghem
Obrecht
Issac
Josquin des Pres
Name two early (before 1500) Renaissance composers:
200
Lute Song
Chanson
Madrigal (Italian and English)
Instrumental Music
Name three types of secular music in the Renaissance:
200
Musical representation of specific poetic images
What is Word Painting
200
What is an intellectual movement that focuses on human life and its accomplishments.
What is humanism?
300
Thomas Morley
Thomas Weelkes
What two composers were known as great English Madrgialists?
300
Word Painting
Bass Register
3-6 voice parts (most common)
Vocal music is more important than Instrumental music
Rhythm is based on the melody
The majority of music is polyphonic
A Cappella
What are three characteristics of Renaissance music?
300
a type of secular vocal music set to Italian or English poetry
What is a madrigal?
300
What is churches, courts and towns
Where did composers and performers work?
400
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis
Name one English composer of sacred music
400
A type of secular vocal music set to French poetry
What is a Chanson?
400
Number of voices
Emphasis on Melody/Harmony
Bass register
Text
Patrons of music
Performers of music
Purpose of music
Composers no longer remain unknown!
Name three differences between the music of the medieval and renaissance periods:
500
Palestrina
Mass (wrote over 100!)
Who was the first great Italian born composer AND what form is he best known for?
500
Polychoral motets
The First Venician School
What important style and school is associated with the music of Venice in the late 1500's?
500
Presentation of a melodic idea by one voice/instrument that is immediately followed by its restatement by another voice/instrument
What is Imitation?
500
Composers used melody, harmony and rhythm to please the audience
Composers wrote music about the human experience
Common people took pleasure in music making (male and female)