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Renaissance Era

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Renaissance Era lasted from?

a)

1150- 1400

b)

1600- 1750

c)

1400- 1600

2.

he word “Renaissance” is a French term meaning?

a)

"New Day"

b)

"Rebirth"

c)

"Overcome"

3.

One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the?

a)

3rd and its inversion, the 6th

b)

Perfect 4th and the 7th

c)

1st and its inversion, the 3rd

4.

Which composer did NOT contribute to the Early Renaissance period?

a)

Gilles Binchois

b)

Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

c)

Guillaume Du Fay

5.

Triadic Harmony means what?

a)

4 note chord

b)

3 note chord

c)

5 note chord

6.

The Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly ________________ in Rome, spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

a)

Chansons

b)

Church Music

c)

Consorts

7.

The cultivation of European music in the Americas began in the sixteenth century soon after the arrival of the _________, and the conquest of Mexico.

a)

English

b)

French

c)

Spanish

8.

Bourgeois = characteristics of the

a)

Low class

b)

High Class

c)

Middle Class

9.

The ____ invention of the printing press helped standardize music notation across Europe.

a)

1539

b)

1439

c)

1349

10.

Which development did not influence the music in the Renaissance era?

a)

The rise of humanistic thought

b)

The Protestant Reformation

c)

China grows under Ming Dynasty

11.

Define: Chansons

a)

German Song

b)

French Song

c)

Italian

12.

Define: Madrigale Spirituale

a)

Spiritual was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance

b)

A madrigal, or madrigal-like piece of music, with a sacred rather than a secular text

c)

A pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition

13.

Define: Consort

a)

Mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium thereby transferring the ink

b)

An early form of trombone used in Renaissance music

c)

A small group of instruments playing together.

14.

Define: Viol

a)

A type of trumpet that is fitted with a slide much like a trombone

b)

A musical instrument of the Renaissance and baroque periods, typically six-stringed, held vertically and played with a bow

c)

A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece

15.

Define: Cantus Firmus

a)

Are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag

b)

Part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment

c)

A pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition

16.

Match the picture to the instrument.

a)

Reed pipe

b)

Portatives

c)

Viol

17.

Match the picture to the instrument

a)

Bagpipe

b)

Recorder

c)

Regal Organ

18.

Match the picture to the instrument.

a)

Bagpipe

b)

Mandore

c)

Pan Flute

19.

Match the picture to the instrument

a)

Viol

b)

Lyre

c)

Lute

20.

Match the picture to the instrument

a)

Sackbut

b)

Slide Trumpet

c)

Reedpipe