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Era that spans the 5th - 15th centuries

The Middle Ages

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Most important female composer of Gregorian Chant 

Hildegard of Bingen

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Texture of early Gregorian Chant

Monophony

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What classification of music is this example? 

Gregorian Chant

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Who sang Gregorian Chant?

Nuns and monks (clergy)

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Era that oversaw great artistic and academic expansion

The Renaissance

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Known as a virtuoso lute player, singer, and composer in England

John Dowland

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School in which Leonin and Perotin developed musical notation and polyphony in the Middle Ages

School of Notre Dame

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What type of secular Renaissance music is this? 

Lute Song

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Who funded the great expansion of Renaissance arts and music?

Nobility and the Catholic Church
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Era in European history that the Renaissance drew inspiration from

Classical Antiquity

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Italian composer known for writing polyphonic choral works on behalf of the Catholic Church

Palestrina

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The name of a Renaissance sacred work with text that is NOT related to the Mass Ordinary. (Hint: Starts with M!)

Motet

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Is this dance in Triple or Duple meter? 

Triple Meter

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The Renaissance concept of rationally focusing efforts on improving humanity rather than purely focusing on the divine or supernatural

Humanism

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The era of Troubadours and Troveres in France

The Middle Ages

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Composer that arranged over 300 Renaissance dance tunes in a single book, "Terpsichore"

Michael Praetorius

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The name of a secular Renaissance song (Starts with M!)

Madrigal 

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This song from the Middle Ages is sung in Occitan (an early dialect of French). Therefore, is this a sacred or secular piece of music? 

Secular 

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Who did Thomas Weelkes dedicate his madrigal, "As Vesta Was Descending" to?

Queen Elizabeth I of England

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Era in which the Council of Trent decided that polyphony was appropriate in a Mass setting

The Renaissance

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Poet and composer during the Ars Nova movement in France. (Wrote both sacred and secular music)

Guillaume de Machaut

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New technique used in ars nova music where the beat is displaced

Syncopation

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What texture is this music? 

Polyphony

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Give one historical occurrence in the Late Middle Ages

100 Years War, Peasant Revolt, The Plague, Scandal in the Church...