HWAM Chapter 7

Social factors influencing Renaissance music included ___

Europe's economic vitality

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 both sacred and secular music

What characteristics distinguish the music of the Renaissance from that of the late Middle Ages?

1) control of dissonance 2) predominantly consonant sonorities including sixth-third successions 3) equal importance of voices 4) melodic and rhythmic congruity of lines 5) four-part textures 6) occasional use of imitation 7) Increasing importance of effective text-setting

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

1450-1600

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

France, the Netherlands, or Flanders

Which of the following statements is true

Renaissance musicians used many devices to try to sway listeners' emotion

The Renaissance period of music comprises roughly which centuries?

The fifteenth and sixteenth

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called ____

humanism

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

Tinctoris

Temperament is ______

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

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

Aeolian and Ionian modes were _____

added to the modal system by Heinrich Glareanu

The primary audience for printed music was/were ____

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

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

In the Renaissance, secular music was ____

composed by musicians who also composed church music

The main textures for the Renaissance were _____

homorhythmic polyphony and imitative counterpoint

Ottavio Petrucci is known for _______

publishing music using a three-impression method

Partbooks were ______

sets of books, one part to a book