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History of Western Music: The Renaissance
History of Western Music: The Renaissance
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1
The circulation of sheet music became much wider because
of the invention of musical notation.
of the invention of printing.
the audience got interested in reading music as well as listening to music.
musicians could not remember music that well anymore.
2
This type of ensemble is called a broken consort because it consists of
male and female musicians.
Flutes, viols and lutes.
people whose dreams and aspirations have been shattered.
a mix of instruments from different families.
3
What happens in a lute song?
The lute has got the melody and is accompanied by the voice.
The voice has got the melody and is accompanied by the lute.
The lute only plays when the voice has a rest.
Lute and voice are competing.
4
Which genre of Renaissance music is not played in church?
Choral and Anthem
Motet
Mass
Madrigal
5
Which statements about instruments are true?
The musician in the middle is cute.
The musician on the right plays a sackbut.
The musician in the middle plays a lute.
The musician on the right looks like a sackbut.
6
This painting by
Leonardo da Vinci is called Mona Lisa.
Sandro Botticelli is called Mona Lisa.
Raphael is called Beata Profunda.
Michelangelo is called David.
7
For what voices and instruments were madrigals written?
Solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
All male church choir.
Several solo voices.
Families of string instruments.
8
This sculpture by
Leonardo da Vinci is called Trevor.
Titian is called Phillip.
Michelangelo is called David.
Raphael is called David.
9
The Renaissance in Music occurred between
1450 and 1600.
Mondays and Fridays only.
12.00 and midnight.
1600 and 1750.
10
Which of these historical and cultural events did not take place during the renaissance?
The Protestant Reformation
French Revolution
Invention of printing with movable type
Columbus reaches America
11
Which statement(s) describes dynamics and timbre in Renaissance music?
In instrumental music, the instruments to be played are rarely specified.
Dynamics are always indicated on Renaissance manuscripts or printed music.
In vocal music, instruments may or may not double the different parts.
The lute is like a flute, but cannot play f(orte), only piano.
12
The two most important areas of music culture in the Renaissance were
Italy and Flanders
Russia and Germany
Spain and Portugal
England and Norway
13
According to the Renaissance ideal, an educated person was discouraged from taking musical training.
False
True
14
Which statement(s) describes the mood and emotional expression in Renaissance music?
Compositional techniques are used to enhance the meaning of a text.
Madrigals express emotions and imagery through word painting.
Secular vocal music contains more rapid shifts of mood than sacred music.
Composers often produced paintings to go with their music.
15
Here you see and hear
A consort of broken crumhorns.
A sort of conned horns.
A broken consort of racketts.
A consort of crumhorns.
16
Which statement(s) describes rhythm in Renaissance music?
Each line of music has great rhythmic independance.
More of a gentle flow than sharply defined beatz.
Sacred music was played as fast as possible.
All secular vocal music is in simple triple time.
17
How does John Dowland express sorrow and melancholy in "Flow My Tears"?
By using a minor key.
By having the lute play long solos.
By using a slow tempo.
By descending melodic lines representing falling tears.
18
Which of these is not a famous explorer and adventurer of the Renaissance?
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Mangellan
Mungo Park
19
Which statement(s) describes texture in Renaissance music?
Texture would vary within a composition from homophic to polyphonic.
Polyphony was the main texture.
Polyphony in vocal music was limited to three voices.
Accompanied, or instrumental texture dominated majority of compositions.
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Which of these types of Renaissance music is not secular but sacred?
Frattole or English Balletts.
Madrigals
Kyrie
Ayres or lute songs.
