❄️Renaissance Music

Renaissance Music

1475-1600

Hybrid students will complete this in class. Virtual students or students who are absent should complete it on their own.

Medieval

- Religion = Power

- Wealth = Power

- Wealth = Education

- Superstition

Renaissance

- REBIRTH

- changes in ideas = Humanism

- people can control their world

- people can create beautiful things

- people are amazing and beautiful

- also, exploration

Multiple Choice

What continent that you are sitting on right now, was rediscovered in Renaissance times?

• Europe

• North America

• Africa

• South America

Renaissance Vocabulary

• imitation

• word painting

• viol and recorder

• sacred / secular

• monophonic / polyphonic

• a cappella

• Composers: Josquin Desprez and Thomas Weelkes

Imitation

• What is imitation?

• Row, row, row your boat...

Josquin Desprez

• sacred

• a cappella

• imitation = polyphonic

Multiple Choice

If a song has imitation, we can also say that it is:

• monophonic

• polyphonic

• fast

Thomas Weelkes

• secular - running in the hills!

• imitation = polyphonic

• a cappella

• word painting - the music shows the definition of the word.

Multiple Choice

A popular example of word painting is:

• singing very loudly all of the time.

• singing "stop" and then having the music stop.

• singing high and then low.

Viol

• all held between knees

• 6 strings

• flat back

Multiple Select

What are 2 differences between the modern day violin and a viol?

• A violin has 4 strings.

• You hold a violin by your feet.

• A violin has a curved back.

• A viol has less strings.

The Hurdy Gurdy and the Recorder

Hurdy Gurdy is a string instrument with a turning wheel and a keyboard to play pitches.

The recorder is a woodwind instrument.

Multiple Choice

Why is the recorder a woodwind instrument?

• It is small.

• It calls woodland creatures.

• It has holes to cover to change pitch.

So. Many. Sizes.

LOOK AT ALL THE RECORDERS!!!

Multiple Choice

Why are there different sizes of recorders?

• Because each person picks one based on their height.

• So that we can have high notes and low notes.

• Those were the sizes of wood that they happened to find.

Multiple Choice

The largest recorder is almost 10 feet tall!!!! What type of sound would this instrument make compared to other recorders?

• The lowest.

• The highest.

• The smallest.