Music Appreciation- Renaissance period: Study set

the renaissance period of music flourished during the ______?

15th century

What type of music was produced in abundance during the renaissance more than any other time in music history?

Polyphonic music

What is the renaissance considered?

The Golden Age of Choral Music

why was the renaissance a golden age of Choral music?

more choral music was written in this period than at any other time in music history

all important music forms of the age were choral forms of music

Instruments were still undergoing a standardization process

what was the basis of many polyphonic church compositions?

Gregorian Chant

what was the most important renaissance music development

the increase in importance of the role of harmony

What is a mass?

always based on a specific text that is part of the liturgy of a given day

renaissance mass

ordinary masses set to music

Cantus Firmus

basis for the mass

Who wrote Ave Maria

Josquin Deprez

Madrigal

vocal music form that flourished during the renaissance

Fair phyllis is a what?

Madrigal

Rodrigo martinez has a what?

Folk flavor

who wrot Galliard a 5

John Dowland

what is the Lute

one of the world’s oldest musical instruments

what was a Vihuela

the precursor to the guitar

who wrote the Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie

Giovanni de palestrina

Who wrote Qui Passe

William Bird

Who wrote Galliard a 6

William Byrd

Who wrote Agnus Dei

Johannes Ockeghem

Who wrote missa caput:

Agnus Dei

who wrote O Vos Omnes

Carlo Gesualdo

Who wrote Spem in ALium

Thomas Tallis