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
