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Quiz 2
Final Review
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/16/2014

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Define the term Renaissance as it applies to the arts and more specifically to music
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Renaissance is the rebirth of classical music centered in Greece and Rome. The music was only meant to be sung in church
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Discuss at least three sociocultural influences on Renaissance music
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Renaissance: The church was where most of the music was planned
Humanism: People started relying on their values instead of religion
Reformation: Helped introduce more music
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Discuss at least three functions of Renaissance music
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Church: At first music was only in the church and a capella (mostly)
Entertainment: Started being used in the streets to entertain bystanders
Dancing: Dancers and performers used music as accompaniment
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True or false: The Renaissance in music occurred between 1450 to 1600
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True
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The five parts of the Mass Ordinary are
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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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The intellectual movement known as what focused on human life and its accomplishments
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Humanism
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Early renaissance composers came from an are of Europe known as
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Flanders/Netherlands
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The most influential patron of Renaissance music is
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Catholic Church
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True or false: Instrumental music became more important than vocal music in the Renaissance
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False
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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly what?
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Polyphonic
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Unaccompanied vocal music
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A capella
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What are the two main forms of sacred Renaissance music?
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Mass and motet
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Palestrina's career was centered where?
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Rome
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True or false: Palestrina's music included over 100 masses and some 450 other works
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True
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An attempt was made to purify music in the Catholic Church as a result of what?
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The Reformation
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True or false: During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to read music, play an instrument and be skilled in the dance
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True
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Briefly describe the difference between the motet and the madrigal
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They are really similar except a motet gets its text straight from the Bible and is only meant for church and the madrigal is meant for entertainment and gets its text from folklore
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The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in which European country?
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Italy
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Describe the term word painting and in what vocal form it was used
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A word painting is when the music paints a picture or how the piece is sung. It describes the words or text of the song
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True or false: Much of the music in the Renaissance could be either sung or played as indicated by the direction of the composer
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True
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What is a versatile string instrument with a body shaped like a pear, popular during the Renaissance?
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Lute
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Identify two popular dances of the Renaissance
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Galliard and Pazzamess
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Who was the most important Italian Renaissance composer?
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Palestrina
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Who was the leading proponent of the Reformation?
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Martin Luther
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The Reformation led to the establishment of what church?
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Protestant
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Most of Renaissance music was based on what technique?
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Imitation
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Briefly describe the five types of imitation used in the Renaissance
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Canonic: Like a round
Inversion: Flip the melody
Retrogression: Backwards
Augmentation: Double the note value
Dimination: Half the not value
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