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Styles and Periods: Renaissance Music

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to be trained in music. The educated person included ___________ and ___________ class.

a)

middle

b)

male middle

c)

upper

d)

female upper

2.

Playing stringed instruments, the ______or _____and the ability to sing were social accomplishments expected of most young ladies.

a)

cello

b)

harp

c)

harpsichord

d)

piano

3.

After dinner, it was common for a family and their guests to play the latest ______.

a)

madrigals

b)

motet

c)

mass

4.

Renaissance musical melody usually moves along a scale with few ____ leaps

a)

large

b)

medium

c)

small

5.

A _____ is a polyphonic choral work set to sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.

a)

madrigal

b)

mass

c)

motet

6.

____ is a polyphonic choral work with 5 sections

a)

madrigal

b)

mass

c)

motet

7.

Martin Luther and Johann Walther used secular folk songs as melodies so that the congregation ___.

a)

could sing in tune

b)

would be familiar with them

c)

could play the instruments

8.

Italian Renaissance composer ______ created 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works. For centuries, his masses are regarded as models of church music.

a)

Josquin Desprez

b)

Giovanni Gabrieli

c)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

d)

Thomas Weelkes

9.

Who sings the highest female parts in a choral ensemble?

a)

alto

b)

bass

c)

saprano

d)

tenor

10.

Who sings the lowest female parts in a choral ensemble?

a)

alto

b)

bass

c)

saprano

d)

tenor

11.

Who sings the lowest male parts in a choral ensemble?

a)

alto

b)

bass

c)

saprano

d)

tenor

12.

Who sings the highest male parts in a choral ensemble?

a)

alto

b)

bass

c)

saprano

d)

tenor

13.

In Renaissance vocal music, groups consisted of ____ voices with the accompaniment.

a)

group

b)

solo

14.

A ____ is a piece of music written for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.

a)

madrigal

b)

mass

c)

motet

15.

Instrumental music of the Renaissance becomes more independent and was mostly used for ___.

a)

dance

b)

mass

c)

social

16.

Which of the following is not a string instrument?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

organ

e)

viol

17.

Which of the following is a mass instrument?

a)

harpsichord

b)

regal

c)

sackbut

d)

organ

e)

viol

18.

Which of the following is the secular instrument played at most after dinner parties?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

regal

d)

organ

e)

shawm

19.

Which of the following is the ancestor of stringed instruments like the guitar?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

organ

e)

shawm

20.

Which of the following is the ancestor of wind instruments like the flute?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

organ

e)

recorder

21.

Which of the following is the wind instruments favored by the Renaissance musicians because its sound was most similar to a human voice?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

regal

e)

recorder

22.

Which of the following is the ancestor to the trombone?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

regal

e)

sackbut

23.

Which of the following is the ancestor to the violin?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

lute

d)

regal

e)

viol

24.

Which of the following is the ancestor to the oboe?

a)

cornett

b)

harpsichord

c)

shawm

d)

trumpet

e)

viol

25.

Which of the following is portal instrument which uses reed pipes to create the sound?

a)

harpsichord

b)

regal

c)

shawm

d)

trumpet

e)

viol

26.

Which of the following are pipe instruments?

a)

organ

b)

regal

c)

shawm

d)

trumpet

e)

viol

27.

Which of the following are brass instruments?

a)

cornett

b)

regal

c)

sackbut

d)

trumpet

e)

viol

28.

Which of the following are wind instruments?

a)

cornett

b)

lute

c)

recorder

d)

trumpet

e)

viol

29.

Which culture previous to the Renaissance influenced all of their frame of thinking?

a)

Egyptian

b)

Greek

c)

Middle ages

d)

Paleolithic