Basic Facts
The Renaissance era is often placed in between these years.
What are 1450 and 1600?
Renaissance music is chiefly...
What is polyphonic?
These melodies were the official music of the Catholic Church and were sacred, monophonic, set to Latin text, and sung without accompaniment.
What is Gregorian Chant?
This composer was a nun who also wrote poetry and music; treatises on theology, science, and medicine; and the first known musical drama, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues). She was the first woman composer from whom a large number of works, monophonic sacred songs, have survived.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
This country became the leading music center in the 16th century.
What is Italy?
The Medieval era is most often placed between these two years.
What is 450 to 1450?
This genre is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the mass.
What is a motet?
These Medieval secular songs, usually about romantic courtly love, were written by poet-composers working in nobles courts.
What is Troubadour and Trouvère Song?
This composer worked mostly in Rome, dedicating himself to the Catholic church and composing at least 104 masses and 450 sacred works.
Who is Palestrina?
As opposed to the Medieval era, this occupation became more popular in the Renaissance era as these people gained recognition and fame in their local towns and courts.
Who are composers?
Gregorian Chant is named after this important figure.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
This term refers to a popular Renaissance compositional technique of musically depicting the meaning of the song's text.
What is word painting?
This instrumental genre is medieval dance music usually with one melodic line and no specification for instruments.
What is estampie?
This Renaissance composer is considered a master of composition during this time, composing both secural and sacred pieces.
Who is Josquin Desprez?
Medieval music was dominated by the ideas of the church. In particular, this musical occupation was very important for the Catholic church.
What is liturgical singing?
The basic scales used in secular and sacred music of the Medieval and Renaissance eras were called
What are church modes?
This genre is a polyphonic choral composition made up of five parts, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
What is a Renaissance Mass?
This is Medieval polyphony invented somewhere between the years 700-900 that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines.
What is Organum?
This Medieval French composer was famous as both a musician and a poet. He composed the Notre Dame Mass, the best-known composition of the fourteenth century as it is the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
During the early 1500s, this event called into question the behavior of the Catholic church and spurned a new type of Christianity, Protestanism
What is the Counter-Reformation?
In the Renaissance era, music became widely circulated and composers gained more notoriety because of this invention
What is the printing press?
This genre is secular and is written for several solo voices set to a short poem usually about romantic love.
What is a madrigal?
In Notre Dame around the year 1200, composers began using definite time values (using quarter/half/whole notes instead of neumes) and clearly defined meter, a technique otherwise known as
What is measured rhythm?
This Renaissance composer was a famous madrigalist, organist, and church composer who wrote a set of English madrigals to honor Queen Elizabeth.
Who is Thomas Weelkes?
What are organs and bells?