Music History chapters 7/8

Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of

superius, contratenor altus, tenor, contratenor bassus

In what way did the Hundred Years' War influence music?

English composers spent time in France

The language used for secular song texts composed in the Burgundian style was

French

Court chapels were significant for music history because

They hired musicians for both sacred and secular music

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 were

amateur musicians throughout Europe and the Americas

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

The main textures for the Renaissance were

homophony and imitative counterpoint

The movement to embrace human knowledge was called

humanism

A mass that quotes more than one voice of a preexisting polyphonic work is called an

imitation mass

A mass in which all movements begin with the same motive is called a

motto mass

Renaissance painters achieved realistic effects through the use of

perspective and treatment of light

A mass in which each movement is based on a preexisting chant for that text is called a

plainsong mass

The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which forms?

rondeau or ballade

Temperament is

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

Fauxbourdon is best defined as

two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords

A mass in which all movements are based on the same pre-existing melody is called a

cantus-firmus mass

In the Renaissance, secular music was

composed by musicians who also composed church music

The "contenance angloise" refers to

the English style of polyphony