Professor Kahn Review

Music in the Renaissance Period was characterized by ​ (a)   . ​ (b)   music was

still more important than instrumental music, and, in contrast to the Middle Ages, much

of the music was ​ (c)   .

• word painting
• Vocal
• secular
• religious
• organum
• Gregorian
• simplicity

Chant melody with 2+ additional voices.

Can be polyphonic or monophonic

The well-known composer ​ (a)   lived from ​ (b)   and was known for

developing the organum into the motet.

• Guillaume de Machaut
• 1300-1377
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Leonin
• Perotin
• 1098-1179
• ?-1238

Which family was a famous example of patrons in the patronage system?

• The Medici Family

• The Dufay Family

• The Palestrina Family

• The Handel Family

Secular French Love Song

What is this instrument?

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Theorbo

Guitar

Lute

Harpsichord

Wurlitzer

Match the following composer to their famous song:

• Pope Marcellus Mass

• Geovanni Palestrina

• Missa L'Homme Arme

• Jasquin des Perez

• L'Orfeo

• Guillaume Dufay

• Ave Maria

• Claudio Monteverde

Which Middle Ages chant means "day of wrath?"

• Agnus Dei

• Deum Verum

• Dies Irae

• Sanctus

Musical Characteristic meaning to have two or more melodies at the same time:

Opera in the Renaissance was:

• sus

• outlawed

• simple

• like daytime tv