Renaissance Era Spring 2021

What is the fourth era in the history of western music?

Music dedicated to a religious purpose

Each section of the song is a different version, variation, of a theme.

A non-religious vocal work in several parts (usually 5)

What did Renaissance composers use lyrics for their word paintings?

A period of rediscovered classical ideals of the ancient Greeks that inspired a rebirth of creativity.

What is the first era in the history of western music?

Is a motet secular or sacred?

A musical texture with everyone singing in unison, everyone singing the same pitch at the same time.

A polyphonic choral composition based on sacred texts.

Music without religious associations.

What does the term "court" refer to when talking about renaissance era music?

This era's name means "between the ages." It was given this name because it was an era of darkness between 2 golden ages

What is the second era in the history of western music?

A musical texture with independent melodies that stand alone.

Music for plucked instruments.

What is the sixth and final era in the history of western music?

Music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text.

Is a madrigal secular or sacred.

What is the third era in the history of western music?

What is the fifth era in the history of western music?

Someone committed to independent reasoning, the study of ancient classical, and a reliance on original sources?

Freely composed music adhering to no established model.