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WorksheetsRenaissance Music
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Renaissance music generally was...
Instrumental
Mystical & spiritual
The Roman Catholic Church's official music
More secular than sacred
Counterpoint consists of...
A single melody
Two or more melodies with the same rhythm
Two or more independent melodies
Two or more melodic lines with the same pitch
The best known Renaissance sacred music composer was...
Palestrina
Janequin
Monteverdi
Machaut
Homophony is...
Melody with no accompaniment
Two or more melodic independent lines
All the parts play a similar rhythm at the same time
Counterpoint
No answer is correct
Which one was not a Spanish composer of the Renaissance period?
Palestrina
Juan del Encina
Mateo Flecha
Cabezón
One of the most important composers of religious music during the Renaissance was...
Machaut
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Janequin
John Dowland
Which one is not one of the secular vocal forms from Spain?
Villancico
Romance
Ensalada
Madrigal
The Renaissance trombone was called...
Sackbut
Serpent
Shawm
Rackett
What is a Crumhorn?
A horn with no valves
A Recorder
A single reed instrument
A double reed instrument
This is a...
Hurdy gurdy
Lute
Vielle
Viola da braccio
Name this Renaissance instrument:
Recorder
Rackett
Shawm
Crumhorn
The dulcian belongs to which instrument family?
Strings
Woodwind
Brass
Percusion
The guitar and the vihuela were the most important instruments in the Renaissance period.
True
False
What was the pavane?
A musical instrument similar to the guitar
A large choir that performed in church
A type of music with several singers all singing in harmony
The walking dance where the dancers showed their costumes
A Galliard is a slow and stately dance.
True
False
