Music and the Renaissance
This can be attributed to the development of an international musical style in the fifteenth century
What is movement of composers between northern and southern courts
The Protestant Reformation started in this country
What is Germany?
This type of composition is written to resemble an improvised piece
What is a toccata?
This genre frequently features harmonic thirds and sixths moving in parallel motion.
What is English polyphony?
This attribute accounts for the fuller, darker sound of Ockeghem’s music, compared to that of the previous generation
What is Ockeghem’s expanded lower range of voices
Rulers displayed their wealth and power to audiences and competing rulers through this practice
What is hiring the best musician for their courts
This King established the Church of England in order to get a divorce.
Who is Henry the VIII?
This composer wrote for multiple choirs and/or ensembles, and their music is often still performed today
Who is Gabrieli?
A setting of the five movements of the Mass Ordinary—Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei—that is musically linked in some way.
What is a Mass Ordinary cycle?
A Lied is a polyphonic setting of a secular text in this language
What is German
Ths fifteenth-century invention was essential to the growth of amateur music-making and the rise of music literacy in the sixteenth century
What is the printing press?
Luther and Calvin both advocated singing this type of music in the home for education and entertainment.
What is simple sacred polyphony?
This is a bowed string instrument with six strings and frets. All three sizes—treble, tenor, and bass—are held between the legs and bowed with an underhand grip.
What is a viola da gamba?
This term describes English method of improvising polyphony on a given chant
What is faburden?
This term refers to music that conveys the general emotions and ideas suggested by the text
What is text expression?
As the Renaissance progressed, composers increasingly favored musical structures based on this source
What is the writing and emotional content of the text
Martin Luther enumerated his objections to the practices of the Catholic Church in this document
What are the Ninety-Five Theses?
This is an arrangement of vocal music for a plucked string instrument such as a lute or vihuela, written in a special notation for these instruments called tablature
What is an intabulation?
This technique is the proportionate lengthening of note values compared to the original melody
What is augmentation?
A compositional technique in which all the voices of an existing polyphonic work are reworked
and adapted to a new polyphonic context
What is imitation? (or parody)
This is the use of two or more successive semitones moving in the same direction
What is chromaticism?
This genre is comprised of adaptations of Biblical passages into rhymed, strophic poetry in vernacular languages such as French
What are metrical psalms?
These pieces were used to introduce a song, establish the mode of a chant or hymn, fill time during church services, or prepare the listener for what was to follow
What is a prelude/fantasia/intonation?
This type of Mass Ordinary is linked by the same melodic motive or counterpoint appears at the beginning of each movement of the Mass
What is Motto mass or Motive mass
A compositional technique in which a single melody is slightly changed or elaborated, and sometimes used for points of imitation
What is paraphrase?