Renaissance Review

Question 1

Name three explorers during the renaissance period.

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus, Verdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama

Question 2

Renaissance individualism stressed personality and uniqueness.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Dissonance is common during the Renaissance period

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Humanists took pride in their accomplishments.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The accepted faith affiliation at this time was

Accepted Answer

Catholic

Question 6

Instrumental music was more important than vocal music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Word painting is

Accepted Answer

Using music to depict word meaning

Question 8

Who was a famous painter or sculptor during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 9

The Invention of the printing press widened the circulation of music, therefore the number of

Accepted Answer

Musicians/Composers

Question 10

Josquin Desperez was a ______________ composer.

Accepted Answer

Flemish

Question 11

As seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting became important how did that affect exploration and inventions?

Accepted Answer

New fabrics were invented, Spices invented

Question 12

Musicians worked in ___________

Accepted Answer

Churches, Courts

Question 13

What became acceptable in art?

Accepted Answer

Nudity, Humanism of Mary

Question 14

Every educated person was expected to be trained in

Accepted Answer

Reading Music

Question 15

Composers wanted their pieces to be anonymous.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Musicians were low class citizens

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Polyphonic means

Accepted Answer

More than one voice

Question 18

The Catholic Church was more powerful during the Renaissance than in the Middle Ages.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

Polyphonic music was performed during the Renaissance period

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Kingdoms competed for the best musicians

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Imitation in voices is common, this is called a

Accepted Answer

cannon

Question 22

Who provided education?

Accepted Answer

Scholars

Question 23

Humanists are focused on others.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

Sacred music was divided into two main forms ____________________ and _____________.

Accepted Answer

Mass & Motet

Question 25

Education was a status symbol

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Church choirs got smaller during the Renaissance Period.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

What important invention came about during the Renaissance Period?

Accepted Answer

Printing Press

Question 28

Instrumental music was written down during the Renaissance period

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

The madrigal originated in _________________.

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 30

Renaissance means

Accepted Answer

Re-birth

Question 31

Court musicians composed secular pieces for the church.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

Women were featured singers in the church

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Education during this time was valued.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

The instrumental line in a piece plays independent from the vocal line

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

Much of the instrumental music was intended for ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Lute

Question 36

Classical Antiquity is the period in cultural history between 8th Century BC and 6th Century AD in _______________

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 37

What register is used to make music sound fuller?

Accepted Answer

Bass

Question 38

Humanists encouraged the acquisition of knowledge through the senses: smelling, tasting seeing, hearing, touching.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

Renaissance Time Period is

Accepted Answer

1450-1600

Question 40

Shakespeare’s stage directions never called for music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Madrigals are accompanied

Accepted Answer

False

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