Medieval & Renaissance Music Quiz

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

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

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

Michael Praetorius was a renaissance composer from ______.

The dates of the renaissance period are _______.

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

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

_________ moved society away from the church.

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

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

What are the dates of the medieval period?

The first attempt at notation came during the _____ century.

Nonreligious music is called ________.

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

Music that has a single melodic line is called _______________.

The roots of classical music can be traced to _______________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which person is NOT from the renaissance era?

Renaissance means _______.

Our current staff has ________ lines.

Written notation is called the ________.

An octave is _____________.

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

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