Music History Renaissance Multiple Choice

what is this instrument

What was the council of Trent

Just intonation was the term for perfectly tuned fourths and fifths in the middle ages.

All of these are true about faburden except

What was the Trecento

Ostinati are short repeated bass lines.

Jean Cordier (1430s-1501) was one of the most sought after musicians of the 1400s.

What was the Concerto Delle Donne

Binchois (1400-1460) was at the center of the Burgundian Court's musical life.

Who was the first Spanish playwright and a leading composer of villancicos?

Which tuning system had small 5ths to create pure sounding major thirds

Plainsong mass used borrowed melodies for liturgical works and each were related musically

The pavane was a stately dance with the AABBCC form.

Le Istitutioni harmoniche (The Harmonic Foundations) written by Zarlino was about expressing emotions in music.

What shape did Cordier make his piece "Belle, Bonne, Sage" in

What is a virelais?

How many Motets did Machaut write? (All early in his career)

In Pythagorean intonation, fourths and fifths were perfectly tuned.

What is a chanson

How were musicians trained in the Renaissance

Madrigal was the most important secular genre of 16th C Italy and arguably most important of whole Renaissance.

Roman de Fauvel captured the flavor of the time depicting corruption in the church. What was it?

Byrd was protected by Queen Elizabeth for his religious beliefs.

Canon is taking 2+ voices from one written part.

What is the order of these forms?

In ars nova, 3rds and 6ths were...

Each semitone being the same is known as equal temperament which is still common today.

What is contenance angloise?

Color is a recurring segment of harmony.

Music of the Trecento had a distinct character

Luther and Calvin wanted the congregation to be a part of worship.

The galliard had the same form and melody but slower.

Desprez (1450-1521) held great prestige as a musician and had a lot of influence on music history.

Gabrielli (1555-1612) was the leading composer of late Ren. early Baroque period and mainly worked for St. Mark's.

What was the Petrarchan Movement

Dunstable (1390-1453) was most highly regarded English composer of 1400s.

The villancico always includes ____

The sonata is Italian for sounded and consisted of a series of sections on different subjects.

Scandals and conflicts ravaged the church.

Heinrich Glarenus built off of Tinctoris' work and added four new modes in his book Dodecachordon (12 stringed lyre)

What was notation originally used for?

Polychoral Motets were for two or more choirs with 1 to 4 singers per part.

Cantus Firmus Mass linked movements together by using the same cantus firmus.

A mensuration canon is when parts apply different mensuration signs to two of the same part creating different meters.

Cantilenas were freely composed.

In the 14th century, people stopped separating science and religion.

Haut is French for high voiced instruments

Which is not an innovation that changed the culture of the time.

Divisions of the Long, Breve, and Semibreve were considered perfect in Ars Antiqua when...

The caccia is the Italian equivalent of the French chase where a popular style melody is in strict canon

Pope Marcellus Mass made Council rethink Polyphonic music.

A talea is a recurring rhythmic unit.

Music printing was developed in what year?

Byrd (1540-1623) was the most important composer over both Dunstable and Purcell

Motets meaning shifted to any work with a texted voice below the cantus firmus.

Who opposed Ars Nova

Contrafactum is replacing the old words of a song with new ones.

All parts of the fauxbourdon were written out to prevent improvised polyphony.

Who wrote Liber de arte contrapuncti (A book on the Art of Counterpoint, 1477)

Temperments were used to make most or all pitches usable without adding keys.

Machaut was the most important composer of the French Ars Nova

These ar all true of Ockeghem except

Why was La Masse De Nostre Dame important

What happened in the 14th century?

Tocatta means touch in Italian

Canzonetta and balletto mean little song and little dance.

Who invented Ars Nova (New Art)

Metrical songs created new musical ideas to songs in their original Hebraic language

What is the 14th Century Madrigal?

What technique does Vitry use in the upper voices?

This is an example of a common dance pair of a...

Intabulation was an instrumental transcription of a vocal work.

A motto mass uses a different melodic motive at the start of each movement.

What is musical ficta

The most important form of secular polyphonic song in Renaissance Spain

What are the significant national genres of the 16th century?

What is an isorhythm

Chapel and chamber were interchangeable terms for musicians of the Renaissance.

Palestrina was the savior of secular music.

In 16th Century, ability to read notation and perform from printed music was expected social grace of urban upper-class

What is Ars Subtilor?

Landini was the most important composer of Ballate and musician of the trecento. How did his famous cadence work?

Du Fay (1397-1474) was the most famous composer of his time and was associated with the Burgundian Court.

Virginal and Clavecin were both types of harpsichord.

What was the polyphony of the time like?

Through composed means ________ _______ for every line of poetry

The ritornello used the same meter and music as the madrigal that precedes it

Petrucci made the first polyphonic collection of music on Gutenberg's printing press.

Canzona was another less popular type of contrapuntal instrumental music

Ricercare was a type of prelude that evolved into a motet like succession of imitative sections

Villanella is a lively strophic piece for three voices.

Which is true

Musique Mesuree wanted to revisit the same rhythm as French poetry.