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WorksheetsRenaissance & Baroque Music Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
The word Renaissance means:
New life
Old times
Rebirth
Fun life
Putting one melody against another or weaving melody's together is called:
Polyphony
Counterpoint
Rebirth
Fun life
During the Baroque period, music was written on commission. What does this mean?
Being told what to write by rich people.
Writing a certain piece of music for a specific occasion.
Selling music based on how long it took to write.
Buying new instruments in order to write music.
When composers write music to match the words of a song and create a picture in the listeners mind, it is called:
Mind pictures
Composing with purpose
Word painting
Drawing on music
Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important composers of what type of music?
Cantatas
Oratorios
Opera
Arias
George Frideric Handel is most well known for his 12...
Cantatas
Oratorios
Operas
Arias
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is most known for what style of music?
Polyphonic
Sacred
Monophonic
Secular
Which of the following composers were transitional figures, helping to bridge the gap between two different periods?
Palestrina
Guillaume Dufay
G.F. Handel
J.S. Bach
What are 2 examples of Renaissance song forms?
Madrigals
Chansons
Ballads
Operas
What is Ms. Bonta's favorite instrument from these periods?
Sackbut
Hurdy Gurdy
Musette de Cour
Violin
Someone who excels at a particular instrument or voice part is called a:
Prodigy
Virtuoso
Soloist
Performer
What does ornamentation do?
Makes music longer
Adds extra things to music to make it pretty
Puts ornaments on a tree
Makes music sound bad
The music of Josquin de Prez showed little to no emotion.
True
False
Match the instrument to its description.
Harpsichord
Precursor to the pianoforte
Hurdy Gurdy
Uses a hand crank and a keyboard
Sackbut
Precursor to the modern trombone
Pianoforte
Precursor to the modern piano
What technological invention greatly affected the Renaissance era, making it easier for everyone to access music?
Electricity
The printing press
The mail service
The typewriter
Secular music of the Renaissance could be compared to (a) music of today.
Who was expected to learn music during the Renaissance?
Both lower and middle class people
Only middle class people
Only nobles
Every educated person
Match the instrument with it's picture.
Sackbutt
Hurdy Gurdy
Lute
Shawm
Harpsichord
The Baroque Period happened between the years __________
450-1450
1400-1600
1900-2000
What forms of music became more important during the Renaissance era?
Fast Music
Instrumental Music
Vocal Music
Loud Music
