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He revamped the music of the Catholic Church.

Who is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

100

It is an early style of vocal music what was strictly monophonic.

What is plainchant?

100

It is the music of Europe and European North America.

What is western music?

100
It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg and forever changed communication.

What is the printing press?

100

A stringed instrument.

What is a chordophone?

200
He was the pope who much of Medieval plainchant was named after. 

Who is Pope Gregory I?

200

A round is the strictest form of this Renaissance compositional style.

What is imitation?

200

It is an indigenous instrument of Australia that requires circular breathing to play. 

What is a didjeridoo?

200

It allowed more acreage to be tilled and more soil to be turned.

What is the heavy plow?

200

It has 3 beats per measure and the quarter note gets the beat.

What is 3/4 time?

300

He is one of the earliest composers we have biographical information of.

Who is Guillaume de Machaut?

300

A musical texture where all parts work together to form vertical harmonies.

What is homophony?

300

It is an instrument used for communication throughout the Swiss mountains.

What is an alphorn?

300

It allowed us to understand microbiology.

What is the microscope?

300

Its intervocalic pattern is WWHWWWH.

What is a major scale?

400

Giovanni Gabrieli wrote many of his compositions to be performed in this famous cathedral in Venice.  

What is St. Mark's?

400

It was a sacred vocal piece that was not liturgical.

What is a motet?

400

Many cultures' traditional music is passed down this way.

What is oral tradition?

400

It altered our geocentric view of the universe.

What is the telescope?

400
The Renaissance name for a trombone.

What is a sac but?

500

Thomas Morley wrote these two English madrigals. (name one)

What are Sweet Nymph Come to Thy Lover and Fire and Lightning?

500

It was part of the Catholic mass that remained the same all year.

What is the Mass Ordinary?

500

An mbira is an example of this type of insturment.

What is an idiophone?

500

It allowed soldiers to fight on horseback

What is the stirrup?

500

The day the Promethean board was finally changed.

What is Tuesday, October 11, 2022?