Instruments
Name one instrument used during the Renaissance.
The lute, the tenor viol, tenor recorder, harpsichord, crumhorn or tabor.
Who influenced the music development in the Roman Catholic Church?
Giovanni Palestrina
Music not written for church.
Secular music
Music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment
A capella
They are small instruments ensembles.
Consorts
The most common instrument of the Renaissance period.
The lute
Claudio Monteverdi
Motet
A form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance, typically unaccompanied
Madrigal
True or false? Music notation in the Renaissance generally was written in score form.
FALSE
A double reed instrument, which is the ancestor of the oboe.
The shawm
Wrote many madrigals including 6 books and wrote with chromaticism.
Carlo Gesualdo
A musical texture featuring two or more equally prominent, simultaneous melodic lines, those lines being similar in shape and sound.
Imitative polyphony
A compositional technique using pitches to create tension.
Chromaticism
Name a dance of the Renaissance time period
Gailliard,Pavane
Any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.
The viola da gamba
English composer known for composing sacred music. His largest, most famous work for polyphonic choir is Spem in alium, a 40-voice polyphonic motet.
Thomas Tallis
JOKER
JOKER
A technique where the pitches of music literally reflect the meaning of the text.
Word painting
A solo instrumental song form which provided opportunities for improvisation and virtuosity on musical instruments.
Fantasia
An ancestor of the piano that used a quill to pluck the strings inside the instrument.
The harpsichord
English composer known for early compositions for the Anglican church. He was a leader in the Virginalist school (a particular harpsichord-adjacent keyboard instrument), and a prolific organist.
William Byrd
This form of music was born in Italy at the end of the Renaissance. It involves multiple voices singing a long story and has instrument accompaniments.
Opera
Name a famous madrigal composer of the Renaissance period.
Jacques Arcadelt, Cipriano de Rore, Luca Marenzio
Musical composition for instruments in which one or more themes are developed through melodic imitation
Ricercare