Sacred Sounds
A polyphonic sacred work made up of five sections.
What is mass?
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
What is a madrigal?
This musical device, in which composers reflect the text of a piece using musical elements, became widely used during this time.
What is word painting?
In the 16th century, it became the cultural center of Europe.
What is Italy?
This Franco-Flemish composer, who wrote masses and motets and was praised as the greatest of his generation, took his name from the town of Prez.
Who is Josquin Des Prez?
A polyphonic sacred work that uses texts other than the mass ordinary.
What is a motet?
These pieces were written for voice and lute.
What are lute songs?
It enabled books and music to be mass-produced and accessible to the general public.
What is the printing press?
A wealthy Italian family who became important patrons of the arts, literature, and architecture.
Who are the Medici?
This Italian composer, famous for his smooth, balanced masses and motets, worked at St. Peter's in Rome.
Who is Giovanni Palestrina?
The texture of most Renaissance music, though homophonic textures were also used.
What is polyphony?
This is the texture of lute songs.
What is homophonic?
A philosophy that focuses on the value of people, as opposed to gods and deities.
What is humanism?
The system in which composers found employment either with a church or working for a wealthy citizen.
What is patronage?
Name the English composer of madrigals known for his clever word painting, including music written for a famous voyage.
Who is Thomas Weelkes?
Name the two textures a listener could hear in a Renaissance sacred work — one in which voices sing independent lines, and one in which they move together in the same rhythm.
What is polyphonic and homophonic?
These madrigals were generally lighter and more comical than their Italian counterparts.
What is British?
Their use helped create a stronger sense of tonality in Renaissance music than had previously existed.
What are triads?
Its manuscripts were not as carefully preserved, so few examples survived.
What is instrumental music?
An earlier Renaissance composer who helped bridge medieval and Renaissance styles.
Who is Guillame Dufay?
A mass and a motet are both polyphonic and sacred.
What is true?
A madrigal and a lute song are both secular.
What is true?
This Venetian printer used the new technology of music printing to publish the first printed collection of part music in 1501 — and his movable-type method printed each voice part separately.
Who is Petrucci?
By the late Renaissance, some musicians could support themselves without serving a single church or noble — and society itself was divided into four of these groups, from the clergy at the top to the peasants at the bottom.
What is self-employment? what are the clergy, the nobility, the middle class, and peasantry?
This Italian composer and lutenist made history in 1566 as the first woman to have her music published — a book of madrigals — and she dedicated it to Isabella de' Medici.
Who is Maddalena Casulana?