Renaissance Remix
This term refers to the study of things pertaining to human knowledge and experience
What is humanism?
This rhythmic technique that uses a "3 against 2" feel, or a 3/4 feel in a 6/8 meter is called this
What is a hemiola?
The Renaissance music period began around 1400 and ended around this year
What is 1600?
In this motet excerpt, all four voices sing together in rhythmic unison at the words “solemni plena gaudio” (full of solemn jubilation), and the suddenly full chordal texture evokes images of fullness, which is an example of this type of technique
What is text depiction?
[Ave Maria...virgo serena]
This composer was considered the greatest composer of the late-15th century and was the first to use a consistent method of linking music and feelings (using text depiction and text expression)
Who is Josquin Desprez?
Lieder, which are in this language, were often used for polyphonic songs in the Renaissance
What is German?
During the 15th century, the typical range of voices in pieces of music expanded to this number of voices
What is 4?
In this type of mass, the same cantus firmus (existing melody taken from another song) is used in each movement
What is a cantus-firmus mass?
In this motet, the composer uses a rising, imitative motive on the words "Et ascendit in caelum" (and ascended into Heaven) to convey those ideas, which is a technique called this
What is text expression?
[Missa Pange Lingua: Kyrie]
The composer Jean de Ockeghem, who wrote the mass Missa prolationum, was known for increasing the rhythmic activity as phrases approach a cadence which is called this
What is "push to cadence"?
This tuning system, in which most of the thirds, sixths, fourths, and fifths are in tune, was common in the Renaissance
What is just intonation?
This type of mass imitates, or parodies, another polyphonic work by borrowing from all of the voices
What is imitation mass?
This tuning system, in which an octave is divided into 12 equal semitones, is the one most commonly used in the Western world today
What is equal temperament?
This song is a 15th century chanson, which is a polyphonic setting of a French poem
What is De plus en plus?
This composer was the most famous composer of the mid-15th century and used a melody from his own ballade when he wrote one of the most celebrated cantus-firmus masses
Who is Guillaume Du Fay?
When you hear a restatement of a pattern on different pitch levels, the composer is using this technique
What is a sequence?
This is the term for a bit of a copycat beginning: a passage in a polyphonic work in which 2 or more parts enter in imitation
What is point of imitation?
In the 15th century, a polyphonic setting of a liturgical Latin text refers to this genre of music
What is a motet?
In the excerpt from a mass, this composer uses a "push to cadence" technique that he was well-known for
Who is Jean de Ockeghem?
[Kyrie from Missa prolationum]
The composer John Dunstable wrote many pieces of music that had a contenance angloise characteristic and was from this country
What is England?
This was one result of the application of humanist principles to religious practice in the Renaissance, in which Martin Luther and others challenged church doctrines
What is the Reformation?
This technique refers to motives or phrases that are repeated in various voices, typically at different pitch levels
What is imitative counterpoint?
In the English carol (English dance song), this term referms to the refrain of the song
What is a burden?
In this example from the mid-15th century's most famous composer, the text is mostly in this format
What is syllabic?
[Se la face ay pale]
The 15th century composer Gilles Binchois, was most well-known for this type of song, and his work De plus en plus is a great example of one
What is a chanson?