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Medieval/Renaissance

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  • The renaissance lasted from (in years):
    1450-1600
  • Art and music produced for non-religious purposes is called:
    Secular
  • Chants were melodies sung by religious figures in the middle ages. They were sung in this language
    Latin
  • During the renaissance, this style of composition is when composers use liturgical text is part of the music
    Mass
  • Eventally chants were organized by a pope and reclassified as "Gregorian Chants" - which pope organized them?
    Pope Gregory
  • This compositional style used during the renaissance was a popular choice among composers and allowed for people to pit one melody against another
    Counterpoint
  • Hildegard von Bingen wrote many books among them was a book on:
    Herbal Medicine, German History, Opera, (others)
  • A medieval instrument that closely resembles a guitar
    Lute
  • A medieval instrument that eventually evolved into a cello
    Viol
  • More than one sound occuring at the same time is referred to as ________ music
    Polyphonic
  • This composer was one of the first composers to add her name to music written in the medieval era and is widely known as western musics FIRST composer
    Hildegard von Bingen
  • In the medieval era, a vocal music composition composed for three or four voices is referred to as a:
    Motet
  • Troubadours and Trouveres were musicians who played for nobility. Was their music sacred or secular?
    Secular
  • Leonin was a medieval composer who added two vocal parts to music - his student ________ added a third and sometimes fourth part to the music!
    Perotin
  • Renaissance literally means
    Re-birth
  • One melodic line of music being performed - regardless of the number of people performing it - is called ________ music
    monophonic
  • Numes were notes used during the middle ages that were shaped like
    squares