Renaissance Music Quiz

Renaissance means

• New Birth

• Re-Birth

• Post-Birth

• Ultra-Birth

A sacred, polyphonic vocal composition, usually unaccompanied is a

• Duet

• Trio

• Quartet

• Motet

What is a Madrigal?

• a group of instruments playing together

• a polyphonic composition in which two or more melodies repeat each other at different points in the music

• a secular, polyphonic song based on poems, often about love

• a musical texture in which one voice has the melody, while the other parts serve as accompaniment

The sackbut is known today as the

• trombone

• oboe

• When the quarterback is tackled with the ball

• bassoon

Who was the master of music at the Vatican and was one of the greatest composers of Catholic liturgical music of his time?

• GIOVANNI GABRIELI

• MADDALENA CASULANA

• ORLANDO DE LASSUS

• GIOVANNI PALESTRINA

Which is FALSE about the Renaissance Time Period?

• Football was invented

• The Mona Lisa was painted

• All of the Above

• None of the Above

What was an important development in for music in this time period?

• Football

• Printing Press

• All of the Above

• None of the Above

What is not a Renaissance instrument?

• Shawm

• Lute

• Piano

• Gittern

The most important instrument used for SECULAR music during the Renaissance was the:

• Sackbut

• Lute

• Crumhorn

• Shawm

The Renaissance Period occured from ___________________ .

• 1450 - 1600

• 1600 - 1750

• 1300 - 1450

• 1400 - 1550