Renaissance Music

Question 1

What is Motet?

Answer 1

A religious poem set to music

Question 2

What is a cappella?

Answer 2

-Music/Singing without instruments.

Question 3

What are the general traits? (6)

Answer 3

• A cappella
• Polyphonic
• Homophonic
• Monophonic
• Imitative
• Sung in Latin

Question 4

What is Polyphonic?

Answer 4

• Two or more melodies at the same time

- Prefer by the Renaissance

Question 5

What is Monophonic?

Answer 5

• One melody and there is not another harmony with it.

- Prefer by the Middle Age

Question 6

What is Homophonic?

Answer 6

One melody with a harmony underneath

Question 7

What is Imitative?

Answer 7

When the melodies copy or imitates another melody

Question 8

What is Sung in Latin?

Answer 8

It is going to be a cappella

Question 9

What did the printing press to the Renaissance Music?

Answer 9

• The printing press developed an interest in notations, the ability to write down a system a system to communicate music.
• It helped to compositors like Josquin to distribute their lyrics

Question 10

Why the Renaissance is connected to a cappella music?

Answer 10

Because it is believed that a cappella music is an extension of humanism

Question 11

What are the different textures of music?(3)

Answer 11

• Polyphonic
• Homophonic
• Monophonic

Question 12

What are the characteristic of the Motet?

Answer 12

• Sung in Latin
• A capella
• Ave Maria - Josquin

Question 13

Why the Church prefer a cappella music?

Answer 13

Because they considered that instruments were from the devil.

Question 14

What is the Counter Reformation?

Answer 14

• It is the oficial response to the Protestant Reformation

- The split that occurs in the Christian Church

Question 15

What is the Catholic response to the Protestan Reformation?

Answer 15

The most extensive review of the faith since the Christianization of Rome

Question 16

What is the Council of Trent?

Answer 16

• It was a commit
• Council
• They had representative
• Their task was to supervise the Protestan.
• They would look for issues of morality, economics and governments for example.
• They were going to unite all these problems a solve them

Question 17

How was the marriage before the Council of Trent?

Answer 17

• It was just a social contract

- People simple declare themselves married

Question 18

Why the Council of Trent wanted to solve the marriage problem?

Answer 18

Because there were many problems when it was money involve.

Question 19

Who declared the marriage a sacrament?

Answer 19

The Council of Trent

Question 20

What did the Council of Trent did to the priest?

Answer 20

They declare that the priest can’t get married

Question 21

Who was Palestrina?

Answer 21

• Palestrina composes a mass and has a perform for the pope Marcellus and the pope like it
• He become the authority composer of the church.

Question 22

What happen after Palestrina become the authority composer?

Answer 22

Future musician would have to follow his style

Question 23

What is Madrigal?

Answer 23

• A secular poem set to music.
• Music outside church for entertainment.
• A cappella.
• Playfully Polyphonic.

Question 24

Which are the general traits of Madrigal? (3)

Answer 24

• Italian Madrigal
• English Madrigal
• French Madrigal

Question 25

What are characteristic of Italian Madrigal?

Answer 25

• Cantante Ninfe - Marenzio
• Il Bianco - Arcadelt
• Usually talk about love

Question 26

What is a characteristic of English Madrigal?

Answer 26

Fair Phyllis - Farmer