Renaissance Music

When did the Renaissance begin?

• 1600

• 1400

• 1860

• 450

The word "Renaissance" is French for what?

• Fancy cheese

• Rebirth

• Death

• Ridiculous

Which invention greatly influenced the Renaissance movement?

• Gunpowder

• Eye glasses

• Coffee houses

• The printing press

What kind of music became more popular during the Renaissance?

• Instrumental

• Vocal

In church music, this type of composition became popular.

• Tune

• Chorale

• Mass

• Ballad

Renaissance means

• New Birth

• Re-Birth

• Post-Birth

• Ultra-Birth

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

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

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

• Football

• Printing Press

• All of the Above

• None of the Above

Renaissance Music ran from...

• 1300-1500

• 1200-1400

• 1700- 1900

• 1400- 1600