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Time period of Renaissance
1450-1600
Renaissance
The "golden age" of unaccompanied choral music called _________.
a cappella
Renaissance
Musical representation of specific poetic images
word painting
Renaissance
The texture is chiefly _________.
polyphonic
Renaissance
The same melodic idea in turn, as in a round.
Imitation among voices.
Renaissance
recorders, viols, lute
instruments used
Renaissance Form
A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
motet
Renaissance Form
Is a polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
Mass
Renaissance Form
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love. Uses word painting and unusual harmonies more often.
Madrigal-originated around 1520, during a creative explosion in Italian poetry
Renaissance Form
Every cultivated person was expected to be skilled in ___.
dance
Renaissance
Two main fors of sacred music.
motet and the mass. they are alike in stypl, but a mass is a longer composition.
Renaissance
Master of Renaissance music, compositons include: masses, motets, and secular vocal pieces, strongly influenced other composers and were praised enthusiastically by music lovers. He was "Flemish", modern day Belgium
Josquin Despriz (about 1440-1521)
Renaissance
Among the most important Italian composers of this time. Devoted himself to music for the Catholic church.
His work includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (about 1525-1594)
Renaissance
Among the finest English madrigalists, an organist and church composer
Thomas Weelkes (about 1575-1623)
Renaissance
Ave Maria...Virgo Serena CD1 TR 56-58 pg 82
Josquin Despriz
Renaissance
Pope Marcellus Mass, Kyrie CD1TR59-61 pg85
Palestrina
Renaissance
Written to honor Queen Elizabeth: As Vesta Was Decending pg 87 cd1tr62only
Thomas Weelkes