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The type of dance music used exclusively for listening |
Stylized |
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2. Name any important Italian poet whose poems were set to music
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Torquato Tasso |
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3. Generic French term for “song” |
Chanson |
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4. When considering any musical composition with a text, what must you consider first, the words or the music?
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The words |
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The founder of Lutheranism |
Martin Luther |
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City where the Brunelleschi worked |
Florence |
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Counter-Reformation composer who was the first to seek what amounts to international copyright |
Orlando di Lasso |
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The most important Renaissance composer |
Josquin des Prez |
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The most important and influential Counter-Reformation composer |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
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The most important English composer of lute songs and solo lute music |
John Dowland? |
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According to Dr. Dolata, music history's most underrated composer is |
Monteverdi |
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Aristocratic Italian composer of highly chromatic vocal music |
Carlo Gesualdo |
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English King who split with the Roman Church to form the Church of England over his marital woes |
King Henry VIII |
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What type of composition did Monteverdi Publish in a series of eight books that span Renaissance to the Baroque styles? |
Madrigals |
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A mass in which the counterpoint as well as the melodic material from a pre-existing appears in the tenor of each movement |
Cantus Firmus Mass |
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Lutheran musical genre that formed body of common shared repertoire that its congregants sang |
Chorales |
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Each imitative polyphonic entry is referred to as a _____ of imitation |
Point |
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Type of polyphonic Mass setting in which an embellished version of a popular melody was heard prominently as in Joaquin's Missa Pange Lingua |
Paraphrase Mass |
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Name the most popular musical instrument during the Renaissance |
The Lute |
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The most imortant Venetian printer around 1500 |
Ottaviano Petrucci |
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List the five council of Trent Pronouncements on music |
1. Secular cantus firmi 2. Complicated polyphony that obscured words 3. Use of instruments 4. Bad pronunciation 5. Irreverent musicians |
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Briefly Describe early mid or late Renaissance Madrigal |
Early Madrigal: composers from north Italy set to short artful and elevated poem Composers dealt w the poem, homophonic and contrapuntal textures based on the text all voices equal roles composed for the enjoyment of the singers |
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Identify one Renaissance instrument from each of the following hat does not have a modern equivalent: Woodwind, bowed, plucked, keyboard, brass. |
Woodwind - Shawm Bowed - Rebec Plucked - Lute Keyboard - Harpsichord Brass - Slide trumpet |
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For what instrument was the following piece composed |
Lute? |
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In interpreting a Renaissance motet or madrigal, either in the original vocal version or an instrumental version, what is the importance of knowing the text? |
The grammatical structure of a text guided he composer in shaping its musical setting and in placing cadences according to the text's punctuation and inflection. |