Music chapter 20
The art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome was of little interest to artists and writers in the Renaissance.
False
Which describes Renaissance liturgical music?
Service music included hymns and motets
Which does not describe a humanist outlook?
Unquestioning faith and mysticism.
Singing without instrumental accompaniment, as heard in this example, is called:
a cappella
Which does NOT describe a Renaissance motet?
a polyphonic secular work
What is a cantus firmus?
pre-existing melody
The Renaissance marks the passing of European society from a predominantly ______ to a more ______ one.
sacred and secular
The multi voiced sacred music of the Renaissance was sung by _____
trained male singers.
The ______is regarded as the golden age of the a cappella style
16th century
