Characteristics
Melodic Isorhythmic
What time period was the Renaissance?
1450-1600
The most simple type involved singing or playing a melody against a ________, or a sustained note.
drone
In rhythmic mode notation, long notes were referred to as
Longs
A third of Europe's population was eradicated due to the
Black Plague
What is a characteristic of melodies from the Renaissance?
Engaging melodies
Two musicians responsible for Notre Dame polyphony
Leoninus and Perotinus
______________ refers to two or more voices singing different notes in agreeable combinations.
Organum
In rhythmic mode notation, short notes were referred to as
Breves
_____________ and _____________ swept over Europe at this time, as well as multiple wars.
Famine and drought
Who was the most famous composer from the Renaissance?
Guillaume de Machaut
What was the first polyphony to be regarded as primarily composed in writing and read from notation?
Notre Dame
_____ refers to organum that moves in exact parallel motion.
Parallel Organum
In Franconian notation, relative durations were signified by note shapes. List them:
Double Long
Long
Breve
Semibreve
What was the most notable war of the Renaissance period?
100 years war
Our modern notation system is a direct descendant of the _______ notation.
Ars Nova
Musicians at Notre Dame created a new style of music by adding Latin words to the upper voices of descant. This was called a _______.
Motet
There are three types of Organum:
duplum, triplum, and quadruplum
Polyphony wasn't written, but rather the responsibility of the
soloist
What made the new musical style of the Ars Nova possible
New innovations
Ancient art of the late 13th century
Ars Antiqua
Renaissance literally means
Rebirth
_________ refers to music in which voices sing together in independent parts.
Polyphony
The Renaissance created _______ for notation
New possibilities
There was a shift to _______________ music instead of sacred.
Secular