The Renaissance

Question 1

Reasons for Renaissance

Answer 1

the rebirth of art, learning, attitudes, ideals

Question 2

Humanism

Answer 2

• dominant, intellectual movement
• Human life, dignity, accomplishment
• rejected tradition

Question 3

Best artists from…

Answer 3

Flanders, Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Question 4

Centers of art..

Answer 4

England, Spain, Germany, Italy

Question 5

Characteristics of Ren. Music

Answer 5

• music and words
• texture
• rhythm and melody

Question 6

Word Painting

Answer 6

a musical depiction of specific words

Question 7

Motet

Answer 7

polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass

Question 8

Josquin Desprez

Answer 8

• Flemish

- wrote Ave Maria

Question 9

Pervading Imitation

Answer 9

• all voices sing same thing at different times

- all voices equal-homogeneous texture

Question 10

Reformation Music

Answer 10

• Luther’s 97 theses inspired music
• chorales
• Luther like polyphony

Question 11

Counter-Reformation Music

Answer 11

• worried about words

- sacred music sounding like secular = they are pissed

Question 12

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Answer 12

• centered in Rome
• wrote Kyrie
• music director for St. Peters Basilica

Question 13

The Venetian School

Answer 13

• St. Marks Cathedral- Venice
• Polychoral motet
• double loft/double choirs

Question 14

Giovanni Gabrielli

Answer 14

-organist for St. Marks
-had dynamics
Plaudite-latin text, stereophonic

Question 15

Madrigal

Answer 15

renaissance piece for 3+ a capella voices
usually about love
word painting

Question 16

John Dowland

Answer 16

• leading english composer of lute songs
• melancholy
• Flow My Tears
• counterpoint and melodies

Question 17

Dance Songs

Answer 17

Passamezzo- stately
Galliard- quick, fast
Pavane- for kings, grand ball
P&P are similar