General
A period of extraordinary innovation and creativity, producing many influential figures, artworks, and inventions, from the 14th to the 17th centuries
What is the Renaissance?
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 it enabled mass production of books
What is the Printing Press?
The greatest innovation in Renaissance music, it is a musical texture that consists of two or more independent melodic lines sounding at the same time. Each voice has it's own melody but they harmonize together.
What is Polyphony?
Religious music often used in Churches
What is Sacred Music? (Sacrum)
Josquin des Prez/ Ave Maria
What is To Pair?
The birthplace of The Renaissance
What is Italy?
It tells you the time, usually from it's place on a wall
What is a clock?
The two most important genres of music in the Rennaisance
What are Sacrum and Profane?
Non-religious music, often about love or nature
What is Secular Music? (Profane)
Donatello/The Sistine Chapel
What is Not to Pair?
The intellectual movement which studies classical texts, the potential of human achievement and the value of the individual
What is Humanism?
You wear them on your face to see better
What are eyeglasses? (Glasses)
This type of polyphonic music is primarily sacred and set to Latin texts, often from the Bible. It can be used for various church occasions. Ave Maria is an example
What is a Motet?
Singing without musical instruments
What is A cappella?
Andreas Vesalius/Human Anatomy
What is To Pair?
Focused on realism, perspective and emotion, this area of study saw developments in techniques, ex. linear perspective, light and shadow, and soft blending
What is Art?
Sketched by Leonardo da Vinci and later developed, you probably want to wear it if you jump out of an airplane
What is a Parachute?
A typical, profane, polyphonic French song of the Renaissance. They tended to be in one of the forms fixes- ballade, rondeau or virelai
What is a Chanson?
A group of singers who perform together
What is a choir?
William Harvey/Circulation of Blood
What is To Pair?
When scholars moved away from religious explanations and began to study the natural world through observation and experimentation, this was the beginning of the ______________ Revolution.
(Field of Study)
What is Scientific? (Science)
It was improved by Galileo, allowing him to provide strong evidence for the theory that the Earth orbits the Sun
What is the telescope?
A form of secular vocal music, most of them are through-composed featuring different music for each stanza of lyrics. It is like a poem being sung.
What is a Madrigal?
A long sacred composition based on the Catholic liturgy
What is a Mass?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina/Virgo Serena
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