Renaissance

Question 1

Mode/modal

Answer 1

Term used to describe music based on a mode, a scale used before major and minor keys were developed. A mode is a pattern of notes that composers used to create melodies

Question 2

Plainchant

Answer 2

Unaccompanied melody set to words of the Roman Catholic liturgy. They are modal and have no regular metre. Halo theme is a plainchant. Always in Latin.

Question 3

Mass

Answer 3

Sacred piece of music sung in Latin. Usually polyphonic and imitative.

Question 4

Parts of a mass

Answer 4

Kyrie eleison - god have mercy
Gloria - glory to god in the highest
Credo - I believe in one god
Sanctus and Benedictus - “holy, holy” and “blessed is he”
Agnus Dei - lamb of god

Question 5

Perfect and plagal cadences

Answer 5

Perfect - is chords V - I. Sounds finished

Plagal - chords IV - I. Ends sounding like amen