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WorksheetsStyles and Periods: Renaissance Music
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to be trained in music. The educated person included ___________ and ___________ class.
middle
male middle
upper
female upper
Playing stringed instruments, the ______or _____and the ability to sing were social accomplishments expected of most young ladies.
cello
harp
harpsichord
piano
After dinner, it was common for a family and their guests to play the latest ______.
madrigals
motet
mass
Renaissance musical melody usually moves along a scale with few ____ leaps
large
medium
small
A _____ is a polyphonic choral work set to sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
madrigal
mass
motet
____ is a polyphonic choral work with 5 sections
madrigal
mass
motet
Martin Luther and Johann Walther used secular folk songs as melodies so that the congregation ___.
could sing in tune
would be familiar with them
could play the instruments
Italian Renaissance composer ______ created 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works. For centuries, his masses are regarded as models of church music.
Josquin Desprez
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Thomas Weelkes
Who sings the highest female parts in a choral ensemble?
alto
bass
saprano
tenor
Who sings the lowest female parts in a choral ensemble?
alto
bass
saprano
tenor
Who sings the lowest male parts in a choral ensemble?
alto
bass
saprano
tenor
Who sings the highest male parts in a choral ensemble?
alto
bass
saprano
tenor
In Renaissance vocal music, groups consisted of ____ voices with the accompaniment.
group
solo
A ____ is a piece of music written for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
madrigal
mass
motet
Instrumental music of the Renaissance becomes more independent and was mostly used for ___.
dance
mass
social
Which of the following is not a string instrument?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
organ
viol
Which of the following is a mass instrument?
harpsichord
regal
sackbut
organ
viol
Which of the following is the secular instrument played at most after dinner parties?
cornett
harpsichord
regal
organ
shawm
Which of the following is the ancestor of stringed instruments like the guitar?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
organ
shawm
Which of the following is the ancestor of wind instruments like the flute?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
organ
recorder
Which of the following is the wind instruments favored by the Renaissance musicians because its sound was most similar to a human voice?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
regal
recorder
Which of the following is the ancestor to the trombone?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
regal
sackbut
Which of the following is the ancestor to the violin?
cornett
harpsichord
lute
regal
viol
Which of the following is the ancestor to the oboe?
cornett
harpsichord
shawm
trumpet
viol
Which of the following is portal instrument which uses reed pipes to create the sound?
harpsichord
regal
shawm
trumpet
viol
Which of the following are pipe instruments?
organ
regal
shawm
trumpet
viol
Which of the following are brass instruments?
cornett
regal
sackbut
trumpet
viol
Which of the following are wind instruments?
cornett
lute
recorder
trumpet
viol
Which culture previous to the Renaissance influenced all of their frame of thinking?
Egyptian
Greek
Middle ages
Paleolithic
