Medieval & Renaissance Music Quiz

The markings over or under a pitch that signaled pitch changes were called _______.

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and ________ are all sections of the mass.

Which person is NOT from the renaissance era?

The dates of the renaissance period are _______.

Poet-musicians that traveled and composed music were called ______.

Method of assigning a syllabic to each tone of the scale is called _____.

Our current staff has ________ lines.

A nonreligious vocal work in several parts with prominent use of instruments is called a ____.

What are the dates of the medieval period?

What type of music became the foundation for Western classical music?

Music that has no strict meter or accompaniment is called _____________.

Michael Praetorius was a renaissance composer from ______.

Music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text is called ____________.

Two voice parts sing the same melody, one a perfect 4th or 5th higher than the other

What contribution did philosophers, such as Pythagoras, make in terms of musical theories?

Thomas Weelkes, was a(n) _____________ composer known for using word painting.

Nonreligious music is called ________.

Guido of Arezzo is credited with inventing the ________ line staff.

An octave is _____________.

A piece of polyphonic choral music based on sacred text is called a ______.

What had the leadership in fields ranging from politics to the arts in the medieval period?

Music that has a single melodic line is called _______________.

The first attempt at notation came during the _____ century.

Written notation is called the ________.

Music in which multiple melodies are sung at once is called ______.

Renaissance means _______.

Two or more pitches played or sung at the same time is called ______.

_________ moved society away from the church.

The roots of classical music can be traced to _______________.

The rebirth and revival of human creativity started in _______ and spread northward in Europe.