Bring in the Facts
A piece that is written for voice and the lute.
What is a lute song?
This style of music was written about topics outside the Catholic Church.
What is secular music?
Focused on human life and its accomplishments
What is Humanism?
The rise of the aristocracy yielded families to hire their own teachers and all children were expected to learn this subject.
What is music?
This "powerhouse" division of the Middle Ages weakened in this era.
What is the clergy/Catholic Church?
This genre of music remained consistent in worship that includes the 5 sung prayers.
What is the mass?
This piece of music developed in Italy but spread to other countries that is usually a polyphonic, a cappella vocal work.
What is a madrigal?
Musical activity gradually shifted from the _________ to the court
What is the Church?
This invention affected the music world by expanding music at a faster rate.
What is the Printing Press?
A technique to visualize a picture in the listener's mind.
What is a word painting?
Sacred music played in a Catholic church service.
What is the mass?
What is the Protestant Reformation?
He was the composer who was thought to "save polyphony" after the Council of Trent's decisions.
Who is Palestrina?
This style of music, outside the church, became more popular during the renaissance.
What is a secular music?
Unlike Medieval music, most secular Renaissance music featured this topic.
What is love?
This texture is the use of two or more separate melodies within a common harmonic structure.
What is polyphony?
1. No use of instruments.
2. No focus on virtuosic singer that is irreverent to the music.
3. No use of secular tunes.
4. No fancy use of polyphony.
What are decisions of music by the Council of Trent?
Toward the end of the Renaissance Era, instrumental music was composed for this specific purpose.
What is dancing?
Synonym for Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A composition for three or four voices used in both secular and sacred settings. Our example of this genre was "Ave Maria."
What is a motet?
Composed of five parts, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
What is th Mass Ordinary?
Musicians favored this way of performing as it was most humanistic.
What is singing?