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Renaissance DB
study questions part 3
Question | Answer |
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What is the Mass, and what type of music did a Renaissance Mass involve? | CATHOLIC CHURCH SERVICE THAT CELEBRATES CHRIST"S LAST SUPPER AND SACRIFICES ON THE CROSS..........4 |
What were common topics of secular music in the Renaissance? | love and could be told as amusing stories |
Name at least two famous Renaissance composers and describe the music they wrote. | Josquin Desprez-secular and sacred music and John Dowland who played the lute |
What is a pavane? What is a galliard? What is the difference between the two? | pavane-slow and formal dance that included many bows and curtsies, galliard-lively dance where men hop in the air, they are opposites |
What were two instruments that were popular during the Renaissance? | lute and recorder |
What does it mean to say that someone is “quixotic,” and where does the word come from? | means-that a person is a dreamer, head in the clouds, full of lofty and noble thoughts, but not very practical.It comes from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. |
Why didn’t Don Quixote make Cervantes rich? | even though Don Quixote was a big success people made copies of it themselves and started selling it, they never paid Cervantes. |
What type of book was Cervantes making fun of when he wrote Don Quixote? | romances of chivalry |
What is a bard, and why is Shakespeare sometimes called “The Bard of Avon?” | bard-poet, Shakespeare was sometimes called "The Bard of Avon" because he was a poet and he was born in Avan. |
Who was Johann Gutenberg? | He was the person who invented the printing press. |