Chapter 7

Music and art of the Renaissance shared which of these characteristics?

An interest in the individual

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

Social factors influencing Renaissance music included

Europe's economic vitality

What is the seventh characteristic distinguish the music of Renaissance

increasing importance of effective text-setting

What is the fourth characteristic distinguish the music of Renaissance?

melodic and rhythmic congruity of lines

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

Women were expected to learn music as part of a lady's education

What is the sixth characteristic distinguish the music of Renaissance?

occasional use of imitation

In Italy, the main patrons for music were ______________

the heads of small city states and the church

Temperament is ___________

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

What are the dates of Renaissance in the history of Western art music ?

1450-1600

Aeolian and Ionian modes were

Added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanus

What is the first characteristic distinguish the music of the Renaissance from that of the late Middle Ages?

Control of dissonance

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

France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

The main textures for the Renaissance were

Homorhythmic poloyphony and imitative counterpoint

Ottavio Petrucci is known ______

Publishing music using a three impression method

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?

The fifteenth and sixteenth

Court chapels were significant for music history because ___________

They hired musicians for both sacred and secular music

The theorist who first described counterpart that considered thirds sixths consonances was

Tinctoris

The primary audience for printed music was/were

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called __________

humanism

In the Renaissance , secular music was

composed by musicians who also composed church music

What is the third characteristic distinguish the music of the Renaissance?

equal importance of voices

What is the fifth characteristic distinguish the music of Renaissance?

four-part textures

What is the second characteristic distinguish the music of the Renaissance from that of the late Middle Ages?

predominantly consonant sonorities including sixth-third successions

Partbooks were

sets of books, one part to abook