Chapter 4: Final + Chapter 1-3: Final

Who is thought of as a father of the modern study of acoustics.

Renaissance secular music may be compared to this style of today's music.

Homophonic textures lead to increased use of

The study of how sound behaves in physical spaces.

Who was known for being an influential religious leader, artist, poet, scientist, and musician in the Middle Ages?

Multiple pitches sung to one syllable of text is called

The term that derives from the Italian word borocco.

Two or more meters played simultaneously.

He sponsored the collection of Songs for the Virgin Mary.

A sound that is harsh to our ears, convey tension, or instability.

Artists and authors of the renaissance became interested in classical ______ and _____.

A musical piece for several solo voices set to a short poem and most were about love.

He started the School of Athens.

The French composer that emerged as the most important poet and composer of his century.

The intentional organization of sounds time by and for humans.

Two large ensembles genre in the Baroque Period.

Another name for renaissance is "rebirth".

A note produced from organized sound waves.

The distance between two pitches.

The volume of music.

How low or high a pitch can be.

A vocal piece set for three for four voices.

The leader of the Protestant reformation during the Renaissance.

Inventor of the staff notation system.

Actor, song and dance performer, and a comedian, immortalized for having created comic roles in Shakespeare.

Music that has more than one melodic line.

The English composer is known for composing Anthems.

The entertainment equivalent of movies today.

Vertical lines in music.

The ways in which musical lines of a musical piece interact.

Music that has one melodic line.

These traveling singer-songwriters accompanied themselves with instruments and wrote secular music?

Most of the music that has survived the Middle Ages is

The speed of the beat in music.

The Spanish playwright, poet and novelist who is best known for writing Don Quixote.

Which class was the primary source of information?

Music that derived from a particular culture and withstood the test of time.

Where Bach was born.

The group that considered issues of the church's authority and organizational structure.

Longtudinal waves that travel through a solid, liquid, or gas.

In Four Seasons, the season that depicted birds singing, murmuring streams, and thunderstorms.

A sustained pitch or pitches often found in music of the middle ages or earlier and in folk music

Early Protestant hymns set biblical texts in this language

The way beats are grouped together in music.

What years was the Baroque period set in?

The distance between the lowest and highest notes of a melody.

The organization of all musical elements in time.

What years were the middle ages?

He became one of the finest English madrigal composers.

These were medieval street musicians. They were peasants.

A sacred opera that is not staged

The language hymns were sung in during the middle ages.

He nailed The Ninety0five Thesis on Wittenberg Church Door.

An extremely important form of music in the Renaissance, sung in the Roman Catholic Church.

The steady pulse or heartbeat in music.

An ensemble consisting of the violin family, woodwind instruments, trumpet and timpani.

Refers to how high the wave form appears to vibrate.

Music that has one melodic line and accompaniment.

Tone color or tone quality.

Became more prominent in music to split measures and follow the form of the meter.

Music in which each syllable of a text is set to one musical note.

Rhythm that follows the rhythm of the text and is not notated.

These songs consisted of voices with one or both of the two lower voices being played by instruments.