Vocabulary
This is the type of person that was expected to be trained in music during the Renaissance period.
What is every educated person?
What is 1450-1600?
What is Medieval and Baroque?
Ave Maria by Victoria is an example of a polyphonic choral composition. What is this form of music called?
(BONUS 100pts: Define polyphony)
What is a motet?
What is many independent melodies or lines of music sung/played at once?
This type of music was extremely popular in Renaissance culture.
What is instrumental dance music?
This is how many voices chansons consisted of.
What is three?
These were popular instruments used during the Renaissance period.
What are recorders, bowed/string instruments, shawm, and the sackbut?
Fantasia No. 1 by William Byrd features this instrument family that later turned into the modern string family.
What is the viol family?
These were the three most important genres of Renaissance Secular Music.
What are the Chanson, instrumental dance music, and the madrigal?
This invention greatly affected the music world by allowing mass production of music and popularized music of great composers from around the world.
What is the printing press?
These are some characteristics of the Renaissance period.
What is great creativity, exploration, and adventure?
El Grillo by Josquin Des Prez uses this musical tool where the music reflects the lyrics of the song.
What is word painting?
This is the type of music today that would be equivalent of secular music in the Renaissance.
What is pop music?
This religious leader protested against the Roman Catholic Church, which was taking advantage of people.
Who is Martin Luther?
These are the names of the aeras in which musical activity shifted during the Renaissance.
What is churches to the courts of the nobility?
Fantasia No. 1 for Viol Consort by William Byrd demonstrates the fantasia form of music. What are some elements of a Fantasia?
Fantasia is a free-form style of instrumental music for "consorts" seemed improvised but was often written down.
This was the determining factor of the instrumentation for dances.
What are indoor and outdoor performances?
This is another word for Renaissance.
What is Rebirth?
These are the aspects of life that became important during the Renaissance period.
What are the arts, sciences, and learning?
Scaramella Va Alla Guerra by Josquin Des Prez features nonsense syllables and tells the story of a clownish soldier going to war. This type of storytelling is called what?
BONUS 100pts: What instruments are featured in this composition?
What is satire?
The instruments featured are Recorders, lutes, shawms, viols, and tambourines.
These are the five types of dances from the Renaissance.
What are the pavane, saltarello, galliard, alle mande, and the madrigal?