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