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