Chapter 7

The idea that music could be a social accomplishment came from

Ancient Greece

The Renaissance period is marked by an interest in

Ancient Greek culture

Renaissance painters achieved realistic effects through the use of

perspective and treatment of light

Ottavio Petrucci is known for

publishing music using a three-impression method

Partbooks were

sets of books, one part to a book

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly of

the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

In Italy, the main patrons for music were

the heads of small city states and the church

Court chapels were significant for music history because

they hired musicians for sacred and secular music

Temperament is

tuning all pitches of a keyboard instrument to make thirds and sixths sound good

Social factors influencing Renaissance music included

Europe's economic vitality

For much of the Renaissance, musicians working in Italy had been trained in

France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

Which of the following is true about Renaissance musicians?

They used many devices to try to sway listeners' emotions

The theorist who first described counterpoint that considered thirds and sixths consonances was

Tinctoris

Aeolian and Ionian modes were

added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanus

The primary audience for printed music was/were

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

Music and art of the Renaissance shared

an interest in the individual

In the Renaissance, secular music was

composed by musicians who also composed church music

The main textures for the Renaissance were

homophony and imitative counterpoint

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called

humanism

Which of these best describes women's role in Renaissance music-making?

noblewomen and women in convents received some instruction