Middle Ages and renaissance
Palestrina's career centered in
Rome
How do Gregorian chant melodies tend to move?
Stepwise within a narrow range of pitches
An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the
deliberations of the Council of Trent
The church frowned on instruments because of their
earlier role in pagan rites
The intellectual movement called humanism
focused on human life and its accomplishments
Lute songs are mostly ___in texture.
homophonic
Gregorian chant
is monophonic in texture
The church modes are
like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven different tones
Besides the madrigal, the ___was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance.
lute song
The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspaper
on the lowest social level
The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
polyphonic
The Renaissance may be described as an age of
the "rebirth" of human creativity
The term ars nova refers to
the new art of baroque painters
___ lived in Southern France and wrote poems in the Provençai language; while ____ flourished in Northern France and wrote in Old French.
troubadours, trouvères
Most medieval music was
vocal
Church officials expected monks to sing
with proper pronunciation and tone quality
Thomas Weelkes's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its
word painting
One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for
dancing
Who was Hildegard of Bingen?
1.The first woman composer to leave a large number of works that have survived 2.Abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg 3.A visionary and mystic active in religious and diplomatic affairs
Why are Leonin and Perotin notable?
1.They are the first important composers known by name. 2.They indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music. 3.They were the leaders of school the of Notre Dame.
What is the Renaissance madrigal?
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love
What is the Renaissance motet?
A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass
What is the passamezzo?
A stately dance in duple meter similar to the pavane
Which of the following is not a part of the mass?
Ave Maria
Which of the following is not one of the five sections of the Renaissance mass?
Alleluia
Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for
Dancing
A(n) ____ can be defined as two simultaneous, repeated notes at the interval of a fifth, played on a psaltery (a plucked or struck string instrument).
Drone
The leading music center in Europe during the Renaissance period was
Flanders
The music the medieval monks sang was called
Gregorian chant
Which of the following statements is also not true of Renaissance music
Instrumental music became more important than vocal music during the Renaissance
The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the
Kyrie
The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was
Paris
Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?
The Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance than during the Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?
The church
To-what does acappella refer?
Unaccompanied choral music
An estampie is a medieval
dance