HAVPA Test 4

What was the home country for the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo?

Which Baroque composer stabbed himself in the foot and died from the infection?

Which of the following people is an important figure of the Renaissance period?

The chanson was a Renaissance secular piece of music in French.

1558-____ ascends to the throne of England at age 25.

Common-practice tonality uses "useful" dissonance

What were Renaissance court dances?

Which of the following was NOT a Renaissance dance?

1582-____ becomes the official calendar of the Western world.

____ was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.

1517-Martin Luther posts his 95 theses in protest of _____ and the selling of papal indulgences

What does "Baroque" mean?

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Florentine Camerata?

Catholic countries painters focused primarily on portraits & real-life during Baroque period.

1480-____ begins, causing the death of thousands of Jews and non-Catholics.

George Frideric Handel was an international celebrity and the first "rock-star" musician.

What is the earliest opera that is still frequently performed?

Figured bass was a way for the composer to tell the performer what notes to play in a chord.

The standard way of writing music was developed by the French, using a 5-line 4-space staff.

Artists did not have to rely solely on the Catholic Church for work during the Renaissance.

Renaissance is a religious movement against the Catholic Church.

What is an oratorio?

What ended the Thirty Years' War?

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance period?

The commedia dell'arte typically included female actors.

Who was the leading portrait painter in the Baroque time period?

Where was William Shakespeare born?

What does Renaissance mean?

Which of the following is NOT a member of the Professionals from commedia dell'arte?

Which of the following comparisons are FALSE?

Leonardo da Vinci was a(n) ____.

1431-Joan of Arc burned at the stake in ____ during the 100 Years War.

Music in the Renaissance period was known as _____.

In Renaissance music, what is the cantus firmus?

Louis XIV founded the ____ of France, which established standards for the art of dance.

1497-____ sails around the Horn of Africa establishing a trade route to India and Asia.

Who was Martin Luther?

Which of the following statements is FALSE about the life of Johann Sebastian Bach?

Why was this painting controversial according to the Catholic church?

Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance as a dance interpretation of _________.

Where was the Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis from?

Who was first composer in the Baroque period to write sacred music for the Lutheran church?

Which of the following are main characteristics of the Baroque period?

Northern European painters focused primarily on portraits & real-life during Baroque period.

1519-1521 Ferdinand Magellan sails through Straits of Magellan around tip of ____ to Pacific

1509-____ becomes King of England

The Thirty Years' War started as:

What are the years encompassing the Renaissance Period?

In the Renaissance period, people changed their attitudes on themselves, humanity, and God.

Caravaggio once killed a man in an argument over a score in a tennis game.

Motet is a Renaissance musical form

Which of the following was a member of the Zanni from commedia dell'arte?

Leonardo da Vinci and Giovanni di Palestrina both served what wealthy patron?

Which of the following is NOT a form of Renaissance music?

Which of the following is true of the Renaissance period?

1497-____, the namesake of America, first sails to the Caribbean.

Which of the following was a Renaissance dance?

What was the commedia dell'arte?

Michaelangelo Buonarroti painted the Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgement

1454-The Bible is first printed by ________.