The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly _____________?
Polyphonic
A leading english composer of lute songs was ____________?
John dowland
Most of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ____________?
Dancing
The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as_____________?
The Counter Reformation
The Renaissance in music occurred between __________ and ___________.
1450 1600
Gregorian chant consists of ____________?
Melody sung without accompanied
The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were ___________?
on the lowest social level
Hildegard of Bingen was ___________?
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True or False? The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were accordingly ranked on a high social level.
False
A cappella refers to ________?
unaccompanied choral music
Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then ___________.
Flanders
What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from __________?
The pictures and descriptions of the day
Italian and French music of the fourteenth century is called __________.
Ars Nova
The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home.
Lute
The Renaissance may be described as an age of __________.
All answers are correct
The church frowned on instruments because of their__________?
Earlier role in pagan rights
The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it _________?
used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing.
Secular music in the fourteenth century _____________.
All answers are correct
The phrase Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning ___________ to __________.
450 to 1450
____________ is not a part of the Renaissance mass.
Alleluia
A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the ___________.
early 14th century
The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that
___________.
a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern.
During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to ____________.
All answers are correct
the basic scales of western music during the Middle Ages were __________.
The Church Modes
During the Middle Ages, what institution was the center of musical life?
The church
The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed during ___________.
The twelfth and thirteenth century
The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the ____________.
Motet
An estampie is a medieval ___________.
Dance
Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who was _____________.
credited by medieval legend
A versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear, popular during the Renaissance, was the__________.
Lute
Church officials expected monks to sing with ___________ and ____________.
Proper pronunciation and tone quality
Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ____________.
Michael Praetorius.
A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by ____________.
Monks in monasteries
What bothered the clergy because they distracted the listeners from worship?
Organs
______________ is a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
The Renaissance madrigal
An attempt was made to purify Catholic Church music as a result of the ______________.
deliberations of the Council of Trent.
The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century.
ninth
In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were __________.
Priest
The French secular songs of the Middle Ages were often concerned with __________.
All answers are correct
Guillaume de Machaut was a ______________ as well as a musician.
All answers are correct
We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that ___________ were used.
Instruments
The intellectual movement called ____________ focused on human life and its accomplishments.
Humanism
Gregorian chant is ____________.
Monophonic in texture
The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was _________.
The mass
Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of who?
Christopher Columbus
Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called _____________.
The organum
______________ is not a part of the mass ordinary.
Ave Maria
Most medieval music was _____________.
Vocal
True or false? The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs.
False
The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages
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