Melodies sound elaborate or ornamental and are not easy to sing or remember

A secular vocal polyphonic music composition which originated in Italy and sung during courtly social gatherings.

Primarily contrapuntal textures with some homophony

TELLS OF CHIVALRY AND COURTLY LOVE

USUALLY BASED ON LATIN LITURGY

WRITTEN IN FRENCH LANGUAGE

ORIGINATED IN FRANCE

It means rebirth. In music, it marks the transition from medieval to modern history.

Renaissance music is __________

An Italian composer and considered as one of the greatest in the period. He wrote Madrigal and motet.

It is a song with several voices sung without instrumental accompaniment

It is a vocal composition in polyphone style intended for use in church service.

An English composer. He composed sacred and secular music.

Baroque Period came from a Portuguese word “baroco” , meaning _________

This period was very theatrical, grandiose , extravagant and dramatic.

Paintings were found inside the caves and believed to be their way of communicating each other

In this era most paintings were stylized, symbolic and shows profile view of an animal or a person with themes that included the journey of the deceased gods to the underworld.

In this era paintings were mostly copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco technique was used in brightly coloured backgrounds, division of the wall into multiple rectangular areas

In this era paintings were lively styles which had been invented in Greek and Rome but this time for Christian subjects

In this era sculptures were pieces of reliquaries, altar frontals, crucifixes and devotional images

In this era sculptures had a greater freedom of style. They no longer lay closely against the wall but begun to project outward. Figures were given their own particular attitudes instead of being set into particular patterns but were livelier and more realistic at the same time.

            In this era paintings have been confined in the illumination of manuscript pages and the paintings of frescoes on the walls of the churches were of cosmopolitan style in elegant and sophisticated manner.

 Architectures from this period included two new devices such as pointed arch which enabled builders to construct much higher ceiling vaults and stone vaulting hauled on a network of stone ribs which were supported by piers and clustered pillars.

Architectures from this period showed doorways of Romanesque churches that were often grand sculpted portals or door openings. Wood or metal doors were surrounded by elaborate stone sculptures arranged in zones to fit architectural elements