The Renaissance & Baroque Eras
This musical time period took place in Europe during the 15th and 16th century.
What is the Renaissance?
This Renaissance invention of this widened the reach of music compositions to performers.
What is the printing press?
During the Renaissance, this type of music was more important than instrumental music.
What is vocal music?
A polyphonic choral work set to sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the Mass.
What is a Motet?
A Renaissance composer, he is considered by many to be the father of the opera.
Who is Monteverdi?
This entity was far less powerful during the Renaissance.
What is the Catholic Church?
This type of musical texture when used in composition involves the combination of many melodies and was sung by entire male choirs during the Renaissance; in the Middle Ages it was sung by several soloists.
What is Polyphony/polyphonic music?
A polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections; this was a major musical style and a characteristic of the Renaissance.
What is a Mass?
This is a music composition for several voices set to a short poem traditionally in Italian, later popularized in English.
What is the Madrigal?
Formally a priest, this famous Baroque composer was a violin virtuoso and is known for his work called 'The Four Seasons'.
Who is Vivaldi?
This is the year the Baroque period started and lasted for approximately 150 years.
What is 1600?
This one word sums up the music of the baroque era through the use of improvisation and ornaments such as trills, turns and appoggiaturas.
What is 'fancy'?
Through the use of styles such as 'basso continuo' and 'figured bass', this musical element became much more prominent during the Baroque era from its predecessor, the Renaissance.
What is Harmony?
Although accredited to a Renaissance composer (Monteverdi), this baroque musical style started to become very popular towards the end of the period and would continue to rise in popularity throughout the Classical and Romantic eras.
What is the Opera?
His career was centered in Rome due to his devotion to the Catholic Church. Compositions from him can best be understood against the background of the Counter-Reformation. The restraint and simplicity of his works reflected this emphasis on a more spiritual music.
Who is Palestrina?