Dark Ages / Renaissance - Information Flashcards
What year?
Circa 400-1400
Collapse of ____ and beginning of the ____
Roman Empire
Renaissance
What were the two phrases and what did they mean?
“mundus senescit” - the world is growing old
“benedicamus domino” - let us bless the lord
____ from Ancient Rome (2)
____ from Ancient Greece
____ from Muslims (4)
____ from Islamic lands during crusades
Latin language, organizational patterns of institutions
Music theory
Science, mathematics, medicine, architecture
Percussion and stringed instruments
Physical senses were not as reliable as ____ and ____ (def)
Authority (what experts such as Ancient Greek philosophers have said)
Revelation (what we can learn directly from god)
The Roman Catholic Church serves the following purposes: (4)
- Link between earth and heaven
- Guidance for how to live a moral life
- Centre of beautiful art and architecture
- Provider of education and social assistance
Catholic institutions were also _____ of knowledge and centres of _____
Preservers
Education
Two or more lines played or sung together are called ____
Polyphonic
Music was also performed by troubadours in ____ of ______, as well as in the ________ and _____.
Courts (of) royalty and nobles
Most humble villages
Rowdy taverns
The happy string music we listened to was written by _____.
Tannhäuser
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 _____ ______
Guillaume de Machaut
Open fifth
We also don’t know how musicians from the Middle Ages would have used _____ and _____
Ornamentation
Improvisation
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.
9th (century)
800’s
Words
Neumes
Rise (and) fall
There was only one line which indicated the note or pitch ____.
F
By the _____ century, a 4 line staff was used.
11th.
The ____ and ____ we’re both stringed instruments and used animal gut strings.
Vielle
Rebec
Picked string instruments from the medieval period?
Harp and lute
Louder wind instruments from the medieval period?
Shawm, bagpipe, trumpet
Example of gothic architecture?
Mont St. Michel
______ 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.
Byzantine
Mosaics
The _____ were a series of military campaigns that took place during the ____ through ____ centuries.
Crusades
11th
13th
The Middle Ages are also referred to as the ____ ____.
Dark Ages.
The Middle Ages was a time of ____ ____. The Renaissance was a time of ____ _____.
Financial growth
New directions
During the Renaissance, people started thinking differently about ____, ____, ____, and ____.
Politics, art, science, social
Renaissance sailors brought back what asian spices? (4)
What else? (2)
Nutmeg, mace, peppercorns, cinnamon
Silk & fine gems
Martin Luther’s 3 actions that led to the Protestant Reformation:
- posting a list of what worried him about the church
- translating the bible from Latin into German
- composing hymns in German
____ invented the printing press in _____.
______ ______ (Italian) printed the first collection of music in _____.
Gutenberg
1445
Ottavio Petrucci
1501
Parchment is animal skin which had been _____ until it was ____, ___, and ___.
Scrapped
Clean, smooth, thin
During the Renaissance, people found ancient writings (manuscripts) written by the _____ and ____.
Romans and Greeks
_______ ______ 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.
Giovanni Gabrieli
Antiphonal
What was Martin Luther’s famous hymn’s name?
“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”
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.
Dome Santa Maria del Fiore Florence 1418 Filippo Brunelleschi
Science taught Renaissance painters how to show ____ which allowed them to paint more _____.
Perspective
Realistically
Special name for light and shadow?
Chiaroscuro
Michelangelo created what statue?
Leonardo DaVinci painted? (2)
David
The Last Supper & Mona Lisa
_______ was the principal painter for the ______ family.
Bottecelli
Medici
Bottecelli’s two famous works are?
Primavera
The Birth of Venus
Four great composers of the Renaissance period are:
These composers wrote ____ and ____.
- Guillaume Dufay
- Orlando di Lasso, or Orlandus Lassus
- Giovanni Pierluigi
- Josquin des Prez
Masses
Motets
Secular music is music which expresses
___________________________________.
Worldly emotions, needs, and satisfactions.
A famous composer of Renaissance secular music was _____ _____.
Thomas Morley
People used music for _____, _____, _____, _____.
Weddings, funerals, festivals, and celebrations
Madrigals often used _____ _____ rhythms.
Lively dance (tune) rhythms
Wind instruments of the Renaissance included _____, ____, ____, ____.
Shawm, bladderpipe, kortholt, sacbut
Keyboard instruments of the Renaissance included the _____ and ____.
Organetto
Dulcimer
String instruments of the Renaissance included ____, ____, _____.
Rebec, gamba, lute
These two instruments were always played together: _____ and _____.
Pipe and tabor.
Who published dance music in collections?
Pierre Attaingant
