COMPOSERS AND COMPOSITIONS
INSTURMENTS
MUSICAL FORMS AND USES
PAINTERS
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
100
Who was an English composer, flourished as a church musician, and is considered one of the church's best early composer?
Thomas Tallis
100
What is a serpent and who was invented by?
A serpent is a bass wind instrument that sounds like a vibration of the lips against a cup mouthpiece. Invented by edge Guillaume
100
What are some characteristics of the Renaissance music?
The words of the music,the texture, the rhythm and melody
100
Who were the "Masters" of the period?
What is Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, and Donatello
100
What other country had a renaissance in the 1500s?
germany
200
Who was born in 1450 and is called the Beethoven of the Renaissance because his style set standards for vocal part music?
JOSQUIN Des PREZ
200
What is a lute and what did it represent??
A lute was an instrument that represented magic and power of music
200
What two forms were sacred music in the Renaissance?
Mass and motet
200
What is the most famous piece of art from this period?
What is the Mona Lisa
200
What was the popular style in the Renaissance?
HUMANISM
300
What is musical composition?
The act of conceiving a piece of music,the art of creating music, or the finished product
300
What instrument is similar to a modern piano today?
The harpsichord resembles a modern piano
300
How is texture in music used in the Renaissance?
The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic. A typical choral piece that has four,five,or six voice parts.
300
Who painted the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
What is Michelangelo
300
What does Renaissance mean?
What is rebirth
400
True or false: Did composers like harmonic effect rather then superimposing?
True
400
Has Renaissance recorders changed from modern day recorders?
No only small parts have improved from the Renaissance recorders and between modern day recorders
400
What were gregorian chants? What did they consist of?
A Gregorian chant is a monophonic in texture and is performed without accompaniment
400
What system were the painters and artists closely linked too?
What is the guild system
400
What was the focus of the Renaissance?
What is antiquity
500
What is William Byrd known for?
Known for his development of the English madrigals
500
What place did the instruments originally come from and where were they transmitted too??
The instruments came from Asia and transmitted to Spain and Eastern Europe
500
What is the difference between masses and motets?
A mass is always based on a specific text and motets are unaccompanied with sacred lyrics intended to be performed as a part of a church service.
500
What was an occupation many artists had previous to painting?
What is being a goldsmith
500
What was the driving force behind the Renaissance?
What is Capitalism
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