Renaissance

Question 1

Motet

Answer 1

a short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied

Question 2

Trecento

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a time of vigorous activity in Italy, as in France, with which there was a frequent interchange of musicians and influences. There was an emphasis on secular song, especially love lyrics

Question 3

Squarcialupi Codex

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an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence in the early 15th century. It is the single largest primary source of music of the 14th-century Italian Trecento

Question 4

Contenance Angloise

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a distinctive style of polyphony developed in fifteenth-century England which uses full, rich harmonies based on the third and sixth. It was highly influential on European music of the era

Question 5

Fauxbourdon

Answer 5

musical texture prevalent during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, produced by three voices proceeding primarily in parallel motion in intervals corresponding to the first inversion of the triad

Question 6

Cantus Firmus Mass

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type of cyclic mass- at first was drawn from Gregorian chant, but later from other sources such as secular chansons, was usually set in longer notes in the tenor voice

Question 7

Imitation Mass

Answer 7

a polyphonic mass in which each movement is based on the same polyphonic model

Question 8

Paraphrase Mass

Answer 8

a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass that uses as its basis an elaborated version of a cantus firmus

Question 9

Dodecachordon

Answer 9

one of the most famous and influential works on music theory written during the Renaissance written by Heinrich Glarean- proposed that there were actually 12 modes instead of 8

Question 10

Council of Trent

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served to define Catholic doctrine and made sweeping decrees on self-reform, helping to revitalize the Roman Catholic Church in the face of Protestant expansion

Question 11

Frottola

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a form of Italian comic or amorous song, especially from the 15th and 16th centuries- predecessor to the madrigal

Question 12

Madrigal

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a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment.

Question 13

Concerto Della Donne

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a group of professional female singers in the late Italian Renaissance primarily in the court of Ferrara, Italy, renowned for their technical and artistic virtuosity

active from 1580-1597

Question 14

Ricercare

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an elaborate instrumental composition in fugal or canonic style, typically of the 16th to 18th centuries

Question 15

Cori Spezzati

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“Split choir” -used to describe polychoral singing in Venice in the later 16th century

Question 16

Le Nuove Musiche

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a collection of monodies and songs for solo voice and basso continuo by the composer Giulio Caccini, published in Florence in July 1602 (one of the most significant examples of seconda prattica)

Question 17

Monody

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an ode sung by a single actor in a tragedy

Question 18

Seconda Prattica

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of the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Europe relating to monodic style and freedom in dissonance treatment justified by the expressive setting of texts