Composers
Thomas Tallis
What is: an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music, and is considered one of England's greatest composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship
Why did the Renaissance happen in Italy?
What is: The Fall of Constantinople was another major reason the Renaissance started in Italy because when the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453 after the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars fled to Rome. ... The church contributed to the start of the Renaissance because Rome was the centre of the Catholic church.
Bassadance, Pavane, Almain
What are Stately and dignified Renaissance Dances
Somebody was told not to play wind instruments because it made your face look unattractive. Instead, women were encouraged to play stringed instruments like the lute or viola de gamba
What is a woman. Hear me roar.
Iambic
What is: A metrical foot that consists of two syllables, the first one unstressed, the second one stressed
Palestrina
What is: Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony
William Shakespeare. Hamlet by William Shakespeare. of 11. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Nicholas Machiavelli. The Prince, by Nicholas Machiavelli. Miguel de Cervantes.Dante Alighieri. John Donne.. Edmund Spenser. Giovanni Boccaccio.
What is Renaissance Writers?
What is the difference between sacred and secular music?
What is music made for worship of deity purposes and music not made for worship.
What are the names of the four Ninja Turtles.and four Renaissance Artists?
What is Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. Leonardo wears the blue mask, wields two katakana, and is the responsible leader of the group.
Refers to music in which every verse or chorus is sung to the same refrain such as hymn
What is Strophic?
William Byrd
What is: an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music.
Who is Johann Gutenburg,and what is he famous for?
What is a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press?
Moorish Dance
What is: An exotic Renaissance dance simulating a battle between the Moors and the Christians. All wear bells on their legs. Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music
Renaissance Man
What is: a person with many talents or areas of knowledge. Very clever and good at many things.
What does "Renaissance" mean
What is, REBIRTH - the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries
Name 3 composers from the Renaissance Era.
What is Josquin, Downland, Lassus, Welkes, Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, Palestrina, Morley, G. Gabriela, Bull, Monterverde
Baldassare Castiglone
What is the count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author, who is probably most famous for his authorship of Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier / philosophical dialogue
Galliard, Coranto, Canario
What are Fast and Lively Renaissance Dances?
What Role Did the Patrons Fill
What is Rich people, royalty, nobility, keeping the arts alive and well through promoting, performance places, and financing.
When two or more independent melodies are played at the same time
What is Polyphonic ?
Monteverdi
What is: An Italian composer, string player and choirmaster. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods of music history
Why did Renaissance ideas and artists come from the North?
What is: The ideas of the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe. Culture The Northern Renaissance produced its share of significant art, literature, and learning. Science and Technology The invention of the printing press helped to spread Renaissance ideas throughout Europe.
What is the differences between country and court dances?
Court dances are for those that are trained, hence usually the upper classes. Country dances are for the peasants, and can be attempted by anyone. More fun these.
Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
What is Humanism?
A musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to a measure
What is Duple?