Terminology Review

A mass that uses a head-motive as its primary linking device.

Established by Alfonso d'Este duke of Ferrara in 1580. It was a trio of trained female singers

Mass written by Jean de Ockeghem

European scholars who studied human nature and daily life of antiquity, focused on visual arts and music

An uplifting song that symbolizes a particular group

A type of round or canon, with clever and hidden innuendo

An anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci

Arguments written by Martin Luther against the Catholic church.

Trained in N. France, Flanders, and the Netherlands; employed across Europe

Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments, set to a short, lyric love poem

The head of the Spanish Inquisition

The first book published in North America by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Based on preexisting chant

First major metropolis in Mesoamerica. It is most remembered for the gigantic "pyramid of the sun".

Written by Thomas Morley- provides knowledge of the theoretical basis of composition

Prolations

polyphonic texture where all the parts sing the same melody, but enter at different times

"Music across the Alps" - A printed anthology of Italian popular music translated into English and published in England

Composers in the Renaissance began writing mass in polyphonic setting

texture with principal melody and accompanying harmony

His desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church

"rebirth," a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome

Systematic Treatment of Music - book by Praetorious, significant document regarding the history of musical instruments.

Trained to convert people to the Catholic faith, sent out on missions across Europe and the "New World"

Introduced by Jean Calvin, who led the Protestant Reformation in France. New melodies with Psalms as lyrics

Called by Pope Paul III to reform the church and secure reconciliation with the Protestants

Organization of priests in Spain who punished anyone suspected of practicing a religion other than Roman Catholicism

A humorous song that emphasizes sexual themes and is often rich with innuendo.

Little ideas or motives that were always associated with certain words or phrases

The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance

"Low" - Refers to anything in the lower register

Musical representation of specific poetic images

congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church. Introduced by Martin Luther

Late 15th Century treatise written by Johannes Tinctoris; believed to be the first book on counterpoint

"High" - Refers to anything in the higher register