Chapter 18: Remember Me: Personalizing the Motet in the Renaissance

Question 1

A Cappella

Answer 1

Choral music performed without instrumental accompaniment. (page 95)

Question 2

Imitation

Answer 2

Melodic idea presented in one voice or part and then restated in another, each part continuing as others enter. (page 96)

Question 3

Cantus Firmus

Answer 3

“Fixed melody,” usually of very long notes, often based on a fragment of Gregorian chant, that served as the structural basis for a polyphonic composition, particularly in the Renaissance. (page 96)

Question 4

Motet

Answer 4

Polyphonic vocal genre, often secular in the Middle Ages but sacred or devotional thereafter. (page 96)

Question 5

Homorhythmic

Answer 5

Texture in which all voices, or lines, move together in the same rhythm. (page 98)