Renaissance Era

The Renaissance Era lasted from?

• 1150- 1400

• 1600- 1750

• 1400- 1600

he word “Renaissance” is a French term meaning?

• "New Day"

• "Rebirth"

• "Overcome"

One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the?

• 3rd and its inversion, the 6th

• Perfect 4th and the 7th

• 1st and its inversion, the 3rd

Which composer did NOT contribute to the Early Renaissance period?

• Gilles Binchois

• Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

• Guillaume Du Fay

Triadic Harmony means what?

• 4 note chord

• 3 note chord

• 5 note chord

The Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly ________________ in Rome, spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

• Chansons

• Church Music

• Consorts

The cultivation of European music in the Americas began in the sixteenth century soon after the arrival of the _________, and the conquest of Mexico.

• English

• French

• Spanish

Bourgeois = characteristics of the

• Low class

• High Class

• Middle Class

The ____ invention of the printing press helped standardize music notation across Europe.

• 1539

• 1439

• 1349

Which development did not influence the music in the Renaissance era?

• The rise of humanistic thought

• The Protestant Reformation

• China grows under Ming Dynasty