Instruments
If you took an elementary music class, the odds are high you've played this wind instrument.
What is the recorder?
This English composer's most legendary work was Spem in Alium, which requires at least 40 voices.
Who is Thomas Tallis?
This European country is generally considered to be the "origin" of the Renaissance
What is Italy?
This is the first type of music to be listened to purely for enjoyment, rather than either to dance to or serve a specific purpose.
What is a madrigal?
Thomas Tallis and William Byrd had this specific right that all other English composers lacked.
What is publish their music?
While not an instrument in itself, this is a type of music where the focus is having a single "family" of instruments in one piece, such as a soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
What is consort music?
The "master of motets" goes by many names, including a very American-style name.
Who is Orlando de Lassus/Lassus/Lasso?
For the sake of music history, these years are considered to be the start and end points of the Renaissance.
What is 1400-1600?
Thanks to Gabrieli, we start to get markings in sheet music that affect volume, which we refer to in music with this term.
What is dynamics?
Orlando de Lassus ended up receiving this specific honor from the Pope not once, but twice.
What is being knighted?
This instrument's name rhymes with a wind instrument, but it actually resembles a citole or guitar.
What is a lute?
As the master of music at the Vatican, this composer has one of the highest numbers of Catholic liturgical music of his time.
Who is Palestrina?
This is what the word "Renaissance" literally translates to.
What is "rebirth"?
This rather unfortunately named term means to glide notes together so they sound smooth rather than disconnected.
What is a slur?
Instruments like clarinets and saxophones are reed instruments, while instruments like oboes and the historical shawm have this classification.
What is double reed?
This instrument is so similar to modern string instruments that the name is almost exactly the same; it's only missing one letter at the end.
What is the viol?
It is thanks to this composer that music contains style markings like dynamics.
Medieval art utilized a lot of symbolism, especially in religious art, while Renaissance art switched to this style of depicting images.
What is realism?
A technique often used by Renaissance composers was this, meaning to have a single melody be repeated multiple times by different voices.
What is imitation?
A musical mass contains five "movements". Name one of them.
What is Kyrie/Gloria/Credo/Sanctus/Agnus Dei?
The oboe, a double reed instrument, is a very clear descendent of this Renaissance instrument.
What is the shawm?
This French composer, arguably the greatest composer of the Renaissance period, structures his polyphony so that each voice part still has its own independent melody
Who is Josquin des Prez?
The philosophical worldview that focuses on the nature and importance of humanity carries this ironic name, nowadays often referred to as the "liberal arts"
What is humanism?
This word, which many think is related to the word "quartet", describes a type of music that is sacred, polyphonic, and sung in Latin.
What is a motet?
This is the fancy-sounding term used to describe Mr. Keller's job, shared with many other composers and conductors of the time.
What is a choirmaster?