Renaissance Music

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

“rebirth” 1450-1600.
polyphonic vocal music with continuous imitation.

Question 2

Humanism

Answer 2

The belief that people are more than puppets to the divine.

Question 3

Motet

Answer 3

A composition for a polyphonic choir. in Latin, religious. example “Ave Maria”

Question 4

Josquin
“master of notes”

Answer 4

One of the greatest composers of the renaissance. Wrote “Ave Maria”.

Question 5

Castratos

Answer 5

Castrated males, sang female parts, as women couldn’t sing in church.

Question 6

Palestrina

Kyrie of the pope Marcellus mass.

Answer 6

Developed a way of writing so all the syllables lined up and words were clear.

Question 7

Amateurs

Answer 7

“lovers of music” educated middle-class & aristocrats.

Question 8

Shawm

Answer 8

ancestor of the trombone.

Question 9

Pavane & Galliard

Answer 9

renaissance dances. Pavane is slow. The galliard is fast and jumping dance in triple meter.

Question 10

Madrigal

Answer 10

1530 a new kind of popular, polyphonic song. sets a vernacular poem to song. emotional.

Question 11

word painting

Answer 11

Also called madrigalisms. Depicting text by means of musical gesture.