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WorksheetsRenaissance Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
The Renaissance Era lasted from?
1150- 1400
1600- 1750
1400- 1600
he word “Renaissance” is a French term meaning?
"New Day"
"Rebirth"
"Overcome"
One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the?
3rd and its inversion, the 6th
Perfect 4th and the 7th
1st and its inversion, the 3rd
Which composer did NOT contribute to the Early Renaissance period?
Gilles Binchois
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
Guillaume Du Fay
Triadic Harmony means what?
4 note chord
3 note chord
5 note chord
The Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly ________________ in Rome, spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
Chansons
Church Music
Consorts
The cultivation of European music in the Americas began in the sixteenth century soon after the arrival of the _________, and the conquest of Mexico.
English
French
Spanish
Bourgeois = characteristics of the
Low class
High Class
Middle Class
The ____ invention of the printing press helped standardize music notation across Europe.
1539
1439
1349
Which development did not influence the music in the Renaissance era?
The rise of humanistic thought
The Protestant Reformation
China grows under Ming Dynasty
Define: Chansons
German Song
French Song
Italian
Define: Madrigale Spirituale
Spiritual was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance
A madrigal, or madrigal-like piece of music, with a sacred rather than a secular text
A pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition
Define: Consort
Mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium thereby transferring the ink
An early form of trombone used in Renaissance music
A small group of instruments playing together.
Define: Viol
A type of trumpet that is fitted with a slide much like a trombone
A musical instrument of the Renaissance and baroque periods, typically six-stringed, held vertically and played with a bow
A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece
Define: Cantus Firmus
Are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag
Part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment
A pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition
Match the picture to the instrument.
Reed pipe
Portatives
Viol
Match the picture to the instrument
Bagpipe
Recorder
Regal Organ
Match the picture to the instrument.
Bagpipe
Mandore
Pan Flute
Match the picture to the instrument
Viol
Lyre
Lute
Match the picture to the instrument
Sackbut
Slide Trumpet
Reedpipe
