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WorksheetsRenaissance Music Key Terms
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
The countertenor is the male equivalent of which female voice?
Treble
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Name the term: Where a musical pattern is immediately repeated in the same part at a higher or lower pitch.
(a)
Which of the following are the correct dates for the Renaissance period?
1300-1500
1350-1600
1400-1600
1450-1650
Name the term: A way of notating guitar music that shows where the fingers are placed on the fretboard
(a)
In choral music of the period, it was common for composers to try and illustrate the meaning of the lyrics in the way the set the music. What is this called?
Mickey-mousing
Programme music
Word painting
Story telling
Name the term: Before the major and minor system was established in the Baroque period, music was written using scales or keys known as (a)
Which of the following was used as the key in 'Flow my Tears' by John Downland?
Dorian
Mixolydian
Lochrian
Aeolian
C with a line through it (or cut common time) means which of the following time signatures?
4/4
2/2
2/4
3/4
Which of the following is the 'predecessor' to the acoustic guitar and was a common accompanying instrument in the Renaissance period?
Lute
Shawm
Serpent
Viol
Which of the following terms is traditionally used to describe vocal or choral music that is unaccompanied?
Sacred
Polyphonic
Senza instrumenti
A Cappella
Name the term: where the music of one part is immediately copied in another part (either exactly or with slight differences)
Antiphony
Polyphonic
Imitation
Repetition
Which of the following are Renaissance composers?
Josquin Des Prez
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thomas Tallis
Johann Sebastian Bach
