Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Periods

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Germany

Bach's birth country

Medieval Period

During this period, the Christian Church influenced Europe's culture and political affairs

Messiah

Handel's most famous creation

Madrigal

It is expressed in a poetic text and sung during courtly gatherings

Mass

is a form of sacred musical composition that sets texts of the Eucharistic liturgy into music

Thomas Morley

most of his Madrigals are light and easy to sing with aspects of Italian style

Chorale

musical compositions that resemble a harmonized version of hymnal tunes of the Protestant Church

George Frideric Handel

secretly taught himself to play the hapsicchord

Thomas Morley

was a singer in the local cathedral from his boyhood

Concerto Grosso

A form of orchestral music during the Baroque period wherein the music is between small group of solo instruents

Madrigal

A secular vocal polyphonic music composition which originated from Italy

Adam le Bossu

Adam de la Halle was also known as ?

10

Bach's age when he became an orphan

July 28, 1750

Bach's death date

Cantor

Bach's mot important and long - term position was ? at St. Thomas Church

George Frideric Handel

England's favorite composer

16th century

Giovanni was committed to sacred music and has a keen interest in satisfying the desires of church leaders in what century?

February 23, 1685

Handel's birth date

April 14, 1759

Handel's death date

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

He received his early training and spent the majority of his career in various churches in Rome, including the pope's chapel

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

He was an organist and choir master t both Sistine Church and St. Peter's and in St. Agapito which may have influenced his distinctively pure and restrained style in musical compositions

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

His career reflects his commitment to the music of the church

Madrigal

It is he most important secular form during the Renaissance period

Baroque Period

Major and minor tonality was created in this period

Pope Julius III

Palestrina's first book became popular and was greatly appreciated by

Renaitre

Renaissance comes from the word ?

Adam the Hunchback

What does Adam le Bossu mean?

George Frideric Handel

a Duke heard him play and insisted on a giving him a formal music education

Musica Transalpina

a collection of Italian madrigals fitted with English text,

Fugue

a contrapuntal piece, developed mainly by imitative counterpoint usually written in 3 or 4 parts, with a main theme called subject

Concerto

a form of orchestral music that employs a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra

Chorister

a member of a choir, especially a child or young person singing the treble part in a church choir.

Notation

a series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics.

Neume

a sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches, predecessor of modern musical notes

Concertino

a small group of solo instruments

7

age when Bach entered school

Red Priest

also known as il Prete Rosso

Dynamic Contrast

alternation between loud and soft

William Byrd

an Elizabeth Composer

harpsichord and Organ

are the keyboard instruments that are commonly used in baroque period

George Frideric Handel

at age 7, gained access to a church organ and started to play

pearl of irregular shape

barroco means?

Thomas Morley

became a master of chorister

AB

binary

Johann Sebastian Bach

came from a family of musicians

Gregorian Chant

church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale(plainsong), in a style developed for the medieval liturgy

Monophonic

consisting of a single musical line, without an accompaniment

Orchestra

consists of strings and continuo

Adam de la halle

famous composer of the medieval period ​

George Frideric Handel

had given his English audiences music that in variety and interest rivalled anything they could remember

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

had planned to became a priest but married to a wealthy widow that improved his wealth and enable to pursue his musical career

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

haw two sons but lost them during the plague epidemic

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

his most famous is "The Four Seasons"

Renaissance Period

is a period of "looking back" to the Golden Age of Greece and Rome

Medieval Period

is also known as the Middle Ages or Dark Ages that started with the fall of the roman empire

Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass

is held up as the perfect example of counter-reformation style

Kyrie

is part of the two sections of the Pope Marcellus Mass

George Frideric Handel

is remembered for his operas and oratorios

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

is said to be the greatest master to Roman Catholic Church music during the Renaissance period

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

is well known for giving the strings major role in his compositions

Oratorio

large scale musical composition on a sacred subject

1588

musica transalpina was published in?

il Prete Rosso

nickname for Vivaldi

Zachau

organist of Halle cathedral`

Troubadours

perform secular music across Europe by groups of musicians called?

1400s

period of the invention of printing

Renaissance Music

popular for entertainment and activity for amateurs and the educated

Free Meter

simply means that the music does not divide into a regular pattern of strong and weak beats

George Frideric Handel

studied counterpoint, canon and fugue

ABC

ternary

Roman Catholic Church

the influence of it started to decline as the new music genre arose

Thomas Morley

the son of a brewer

Eisanach

the town where J.S Bach live

Hallelujah

the very well chorus is part of Handel"s Messiah

Tutti

the whole orchestra

Thomas Morley

tried to imitate Byrd in his early works but veered towards composing madrigals

Modal

uses diatonic scales that are not necessarily major or minor and does not use functional harmony as we understand it within tonality

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

was an Italian Baroque Composer, Catholic Priest and a Virtuoso Violinist

Thomas Morley

was believed to studied with William Byrd

Monophonic plainchant

was named after Pope Gregory 1

Secular Music

was not bound to Catholic traditions emerged

Johann Sebastian Bach

was taught to play violin by his father

Lute

was the prominent instrument of the renaissance era

George Frideric Handel

was the second son from the second marriage of a pastor

7

what age did Handel gained access to a church organ

Samson

when Handel conducted it a few in the audience were unaware that he had lost his eyesight

1525

when was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina born

1594

when was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died

March 21, 1685

when was J.S. Bach born

1557

when was Thomas Morley born?

1602

when was Thomas Morley died

Norwich, East England

where was Thomas Morley born?

Barroco

word Baroque is derived from the Portuguese word?

1753

year Handel lost his eyesight

1583

year Thomas Morley mastered the choristers

1703

year Vivaldi was ordained


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