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Renaissance Music
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does "Renaissance" mean? | rebirth |
| What was the interest in self-awareness and self-assurance called? | Individualism |
| What was the belief in the study of the humanities? | Humanism |
| What is someone who sponsors an artist or musician? | patron |
| During the Renaissance period, people shifted from studying what? | religion |
| This invention enabled music to be mass produced. | printing press |
| This allowed music to travel farther around the world. | expansion of international trade |
| Non-religious music | secular |
| Repeated rhythmic pattern | isorhythm |
| music with more than 1 melody played at the same time | polyphony |
| technique of writing music to reflect the meaning of the text | word painting |
| What type of music was most instrumental music during this time period? | dance |
| What 3 types of music grew during the Renaissance time period? | secular, polyphonic, instrumental |
| vocal piece sung in the common language, usually about love | madrigal |
| Composer who created imitation | Josquin |
| Composer who introduced polyphony in church music | Palestrina |
| Composer who first used secular melodies in his masses | Dufay |
| Composer to first document using dynamics | Gabrieli |
| Composer that added instrumental parts to choir music | Gabrieli |
| What was unique about St. Mark's cathedral in Venice that Gabrieli used to his advantage? | It had 2 choir lofts |
| Instrument that evolved into the modern trombone | sacbut |
| wooden instrument with curved end | crumhorn |
| instrument made of wooden box with a crank that pulled a bow across strings | hurdy gurdy |
| instrument played similar to a modern cello | viol |