Dark Ages / Renaissance - Information

Question 1

What year?

Answer 1

Circa 400-1400

Question 2

Collapse of ____ and beginning of the ____

Answer 2

Roman Empire

Renaissance

Question 3

What were the two phrases and what did they mean?

Answer 3

“mundus senescit” - the world is growing old

“benedicamus domino” - let us bless the lord

Question 4

____ from Ancient Rome (2)
____ from Ancient Greece
____ from Muslims (4)
____ from Islamic lands during crusades

Answer 4

Latin language, organizational patterns of institutions

Music theory

Science, mathematics, medicine, architecture

Percussion and stringed instruments

Question 5

Physical senses were not as reliable as ____ and ____ (def)

Answer 5

Authority (what experts such as Ancient Greek philosophers have said)
Revelation (what we can learn directly from god)

Question 6

The Roman Catholic Church serves the following purposes: (4)

Answer 6

1. Link between earth and heaven
2. Guidance for how to live a moral life
3. Centre of beautiful art and architecture
4. Provider of education and social assistance

Question 7

Catholic institutions were also _____ of knowledge and centres of _____

Answer 7

Preservers

Education

Question 8

Two or more lines played or sung together are called ____

Answer 8

Polyphonic

Question 9

Music was also performed by troubadours in ____ of ______, as well as in the ________ and _____.

Answer 9

Courts (of) royalty and nobles
Most humble villages
Rowdy taverns

Question 10

The happy string music we listened to was written by _____.

Answer 10

Tannhäuser

Question 11

The motet we listened to was written by _______ __ _______ and was sung in French and Latin. (De toutes flours)

Each phrase of this motet ended on the interval of an _____ ______

Answer 11

Guillaume de Machaut

Open fifth

Question 12

We also don’t know how musicians from the Middle Ages would have used _____ and _____

Answer 12

Ornamentation

Improvisation

Question 13

The first notated music comes from the _____ century or _____’s.

It consisted only of ____ and written signs called ____ which indicate the ___ or ___ of the musical line.

Answer 13

9th (century)
800’s

Words
Neumes
Rise (and) fall

Question 14

There was only one line which indicated the note or pitch ____.

Answer 14

F

Question 15

By the _____ century, a 4 line staff was used.

Answer 15

11th.

Question 16

The ____ and ____ we’re both stringed instruments and used animal gut strings.

Answer 16

Vielle

Rebec

Question 17

Picked string instruments from the medieval period?

Answer 17

Harp and lute

Question 18

Louder wind instruments from the medieval period?

Answer 18

Shawm, bagpipe, trumpet

Question 19

Example of gothic architecture?

Answer 19

Mont St. Michel

Question 20

______ Art was the high art of the Middle Ages. Church _____ was the crowning glory.

One of the most famous mosaics is in a church in the former city of Constantinople.

Answer 20

Byzantine

Mosaics

Question 21

The _____ were a series of military campaigns that took place during the ____ through ____ centuries.

Answer 21

Crusades
11th
13th

Question 22

The Middle Ages are also referred to as the ____ ____.

Answer 22

Dark Ages.

Question 23

The Middle Ages was a time of ____ ____. The Renaissance was a time of ____ _____.

Answer 23

Financial growth

New directions

Question 24

During the Renaissance, people started thinking differently about ____, ____, ____, and ____.

Answer 24

Politics, art, science, social

Question 25

Renaissance sailors brought back what asian spices? (4)

What else? (2)

Answer 25

Nutmeg, mace, peppercorns, cinnamon

Silk & fine gems

Question 26

Martin Luther’s 3 actions that led to the Protestant Reformation:

Answer 26

• posting a list of what worried him about the church
• translating the bible from Latin into German
• composing hymns in German

Question 27

____ invented the printing press in _____.

______ ______ (Italian) printed the first collection of music in _____.

Answer 27

Gutenberg
1445

Ottavio Petrucci
1501

Question 28

Parchment is animal skin which had been _____ until it was ____, ___, and ___.

Answer 28

Scrapped

Clean, smooth, thin

Question 29

During the Renaissance, people found ancient writings (manuscripts) written by the _____ and ____.

Answer 29

Romans and Greeks

Question 30

_______ ______ divides his singers and placed them in opposite locations — sing back and forth in imitation or alternation.

This type of “stereo” singing is called ____ singing.

Answer 30

Giovanni Gabrieli

Antiphonal

Question 31

What was Martin Luther’s famous hymn’s name?

Answer 31

“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”

Question 32

The concept of the ____ first emerged during the Renaissance in the form of an architectural marvel that tops the__________________, the cathedral of _____. The construction of the dome marks the beginning of Renaissance architecture; the cathedral and its dome together represent early Renaissance style–one that blends old and new designs. In _____, architect ______ ________ built it.

Answer 32

Dome
Santa Maria del Fiore
Florence
1418
Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 33

Science taught Renaissance painters how to show ____ which allowed them to paint more _____.

Answer 33

Perspective

Realistically

Question 34

Special name for light and shadow?

Answer 34

Chiaroscuro

Question 35

Michelangelo created what statue?

Leonardo DaVinci painted? (2)

Answer 35

David

The Last Supper & Mona Lisa

Question 36

_______ was the principal painter for the ______ family.

Answer 36

Bottecelli

Medici

Question 37

Bottecelli’s two famous works are?

Answer 37

Primavera

The Birth of Venus

Question 38

Four great composers of the Renaissance period are:

These composers wrote ____ and ____.

Answer 38

1. Guillaume Dufay
2. Orlando di Lasso, or Orlandus Lassus
3. Giovanni Pierluigi
4. Josquin des Prez

Masses
Motets

Question 39

Secular music is music which expresses

___________________________________.

Answer 39

Worldly emotions, needs, and satisfactions.

Question 40

A famous composer of Renaissance secular music was _____ _____.

Answer 40

Thomas Morley

Question 41

People used music for _____, _____, _____, _____.

Answer 41

Weddings, funerals, festivals, and celebrations

Question 42

Madrigals often used _____ _____ rhythms.

Answer 42

Lively dance (tune) rhythms

Question 43

Wind instruments of the Renaissance included _____, ____, ____, ____.

Answer 43

Shawm, bladderpipe, kortholt, sacbut

Question 44

Keyboard instruments of the Renaissance included the _____ and ____.

Answer 44

Organetto

Dulcimer

Question 45

String instruments of the Renaissance included ____, ____, _____.

Answer 45

Rebec, gamba, lute

Question 46

These two instruments were always played together: _____ and _____.

Answer 46

Pipe and tabor.

Question 47

Who published dance music in collections?

Answer 47

Pierre Attaingant