450-1450
The middle ages refers to the period of European history spanning?
1 Curiosity and Individualism
2 Exploration and Adventure
3 Rebirth of Human Creativity
2 Exploration and Adventure
3 Rebirth of Human Creativity
The Renaissance Maybe be described as an age of?
Priests
Who were the most important musicians of the Middle Ages?
Monks in Monasteries
A monopoly of learning in the Middle Ages was held by whom?
The church
What was the center of music life in the Middle Ages?
Pagan Rites
Why does the church frown on instruments?
Organ
What bothered clergy because of its disturbance from during worship?
Pictures and literary descriptions
What we know about instruments from the middle age and Renaissance come from where?
Vocal
Most medieval music was what type of music?
Discreet Accompaniment
During the Middle Ages, the church believed music should only be used as what?
Gregorian Chants
What type of music did medieval monks sing?
Monophonic
What type of texture are Gregorian Chants?
Gregorian Chants
What type of music consisted of a melody sung without accompaniment
Pope Gregory I
Who gave the name of the Gregorian Chant, and was a medieval legend.
Offices and mass
What were the two types of services at which monks and nuns sang?
Ninth Century
The survival of chant manuscripts date from the?
Church Modes
The basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were?, They consist of seven different tones.
ABA
Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam is in what form?
Hildegard of Bingen
The first women composer to leave a large number of works that have survived. Abe’s the convenient of Rupertsberg?
Hildegard of bingen
Who composed the earliest play “Ordo Virtutum”?
Twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during the?
Troubadours and Trove’res
The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed by?
Crusaders, dancing, and love
The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with the?
Rhythm
The notation of troubadour and trouvère melodies does not indicate?
The Wandering Minstrels, or Jongelurs
Who performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares, lived on the lowest level of society, and played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes?
Secular
What type of music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for dancing.
Estampie
This is a medieval dance
Instrumental Music
The medieval estampie is one of the earliest surviving pieces of what?
Single melodic lines, instrument
The medieval estampie’s. manuscripts contains only? And it does not which ______ should be played?
Second melodic Line
The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed western music began sometime between 700 and 900
with the addition of a__________ to Gregorian Chant?
with the addition of a__________ to Gregorian Chant?
Organum
Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is
called what?
called what?
Paris
What was the intellectual and artistic capitol of Europe during the late medieval period.
Perotin
Who was among the first known composers to write music with more than two voices?
Paris
The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was?
Placing new melodic lines against known chants.
In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created
by?
by?
Leonin and Perotin
they are the first important composers
known by name, indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music, and were the leaders
of the school of Notre Dame.
known by name, indicated definite time values and a clearly defined meter in their music, and were the leaders
of the school of Notre Dame.
Leonin and Perotin
The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm. were?
Syncopation
One of the major characteristics of ars nova music is its use of?
Ars Nova
This term refers to Italian and French music of the 14th centruy.
Early 14th century
new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by?
Guillaume De Mauchet
Who was an outstanding ars nova composer? His compositions consisted mainly of love songs with instrumental accompaniment?
1 Kyrie
2 Gloria
3 Credo
4 Sanctus
5 Agnus Dei
2 Gloria
3 Credo
4 Sanctus
5 Agnus Dei
What are the five parts of the Mass Ordinary?
1450-1600
The Renaissance in music occurred between?
Flanders
Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was
then?
then?
Italy
The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was?
Polyphonic
The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly?
Capella
An unaccompanied choral music is called?
Melodies, Melody
Renaissance ___________________ are usually easy to sing because the ___________________ often moves along a scale with few large leaps.
Mass and Motet
The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are?
Motet
This is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the
ordinary of the mass.
ordinary of the mass.
Josquin Desprez
Who spent much of his life in Italy?
Palestrina’s
Whose career was centered in rome
Council of Trent
An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of
the?
the?
Geovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
Whose music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works.
1 Secular tunes
2 Noisy Instruments
3 Theatrical Singing
2 Noisy Instruments
3 Theatrical Singing
The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because of what 3 things?
It is set for 6 voices instead of four.
Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Josquin’s Ave Maria because?
Renaissance Madrigal
What began around 1520 in Italy?
1 Play instrument
2 Dance
3 Read Musical Notation
2 Dance
3 Read Musical Notation
During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to be able to do what 3 things?
Renaissance Madrigal
This is a piece for several solo voice, set set to a short poem about love.
English Madrigal
Between English and Italian Madrigals which one has a humorous and more lighter tone
Word paintings
Thomas Weelkes’s As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its?
Lute Songs
This was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity
during the Renaissance.
during the Renaissance.
Lute
was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.
Homophonic
Lute songs are what type of texture?
John Dowland
Who was a leading English Composer of Lute Songs.
Subordinate
In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment is _________ to the voices?
Dancing
Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for?
Pavane
The passamezzo is a stately dance in duple meter similar to the?
Lute
A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the?
Secular, Sacred
Among other causes, ___________________ music became more important than ___________________ music in the fourteenth century because the literature of the time stressed earthly sensuality, rival popes claimed authority at the same time, thereby weakening the authority of the church, and the feudal system had gone into decline.
New System of notation, Rhythmic
The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that a ______________________________________ permitted composers to specify almost any___________________ Pattern
71
During the Renaissance secular vocal music was written for groups of solo voices and for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, secular music contained more rapid changes of mood than sacred music and a wealth of dance music published during the sixteenth century has survived.
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Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because composers considered the harmonic effect of
chords rather than superimposing one melody above another, the bass register is used for the first time, and the
typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest.
chords rather than superimposing one melody above another, the bass register is used for the first time, and the
typical choral piece has four, five, or six voice parts of nearly equal melodic interest.
