Music Appreciation Prelude 2

Women musicians in the Renaissance earned their living as _____________

Court Singers

The beginning of the Middle Ages was marked by the __________

Fall of the Roman Empire

T/F: The Middle East had no influence on European musical styles.

False

T/F: The Renaissance marks the passing of European society from a predominately secular society to a more sacred one.

False

T/F: The introduction of printing occurred in the later Middle Ages

False

T/F: The literature of ancient Greece and Rome was of little interest to artists and writers of the Renaissance.

False

T/F: The troubadours and trouveres wrote sacred music

False

One of the major advancements in the Renaissance was the invention of printing, pioneered by ____________

Johannes Gutenberg

Which artist was a Renaissance visual artist?

Leonardo da Vinci

Music as a Commodity

Music is bought and old, taught and learned, and preserved

Two of the earliest named composers of organum from the Notre Dame Cathedral were Léonin and ___________-

Perotin

In which time period were painters and sculptors studying the nude human form as a thing of beauty, the laws of perspective applied to paintings, and painters explored the beauties of nature?

Renaissance

During the Renaissance, lands new to the Europeans were discovered, including _________

The Americas

During the Middle Ages, all power came from which religious organization?

The Roman Catholic Church

The most universally idealized woman in Western culture during the Middle Ages was ______________

The Virgin Mary

Who were the most prominent performers of secular music in medieval France?

Troubadours and Trouveres

T/F: During the Renaissance printed music became available and music literacy spread.

True

T/F: Many aspects of early music performance are open to speculation

True

T/F: Musicians and their works moved along trade routes during the Middle Ages

True

T/F: Our understanding of the musical culture of ancient civilizations is limited by the small number of fragments of music that have survived.

True

T/F: Tempo and dynamic markings were absent in early music notation

True

T/F: The influence of European musical styles surpasses that of any of its languages or religions

True

T/F: Western music notation was invented to further the goals of Christian worhsip

True

After the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, ___________ writing brought to Europe in increasing numbers

Ancient Greek and Roman

Medieval and Renaissance musicians could find employment in which professions?

Copyists Teaching Instrument Building