Wrote masses, motets, chansons, and frottole. Contributed to the development of a new form, the motet-chanson, of which he left at least three examples.
Who is Des Prez?
100
Without instrumental accompaniment.
What is A Capella?
100
Music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.
What is concerted music?
100
Years of Renaissance Era.
What is 1450-1600?
100
Years of Baroque Era.
What is 1600-1750?
200
A German-born composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.
Who is Handel?
200
Each of the entering voices imitates its predecessor as it presents its material.
What is immitative polyphony?
200
A texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices
What is polyphony?
200
Encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform.
What is a cultural movement?
200
Used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance and music.
What is artistic style?
300
Wrote seven masses, 28 individual Mass movements, three Magnificats, two Benedicamus Domino settings, 15 antiphon settings (6 are Marian antiphons), 27 hymns, 22 motets (13 are isorhythmic) and 87 chansons.
Who is DuFay?
300
A secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong. Traditionally, unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six.
What is a madrigal?
300
A system / language of music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center", that is on hierarchical scale degree relationships.
What is tonality?
300
A response to the challenge of medieval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and scientific studies.
What is humanism?
300
Place of development.
What is Rome?
400
Enriched many established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organization, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.
Who is Bach?
400
A pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.
What is cantus firmus?
400
Musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra.
What is Concerto Grosso?
400
A split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417.
What is Western Schism?
400
Decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
500
Known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for the violin, as well as sacred choral works and over forty operas.
Who is Vivaldi?
500
A polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.
What is a Motet?
500
A 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite.
What is a Sinfonia?
500
Accelerated the spread of learning.
What is the invention of printing with moveable type?
500
Developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially that of the Palace of Versailles.