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Renaissance Music Packet
Due Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Please answer the following questions for each category. Please use the following website to research
the answers. http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/lessons_online/ren_online/renaissance_music.htm
An Introduction:
1. What are the dates of Renaissance music?________________________________________________
2. Where does the name Renaissance come from?
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3. Where did this movement start?________________________________________________________
4. Who was the Queen of England when Renaissance music reached England?_____________________
5. What is the difference between secular and sacred music?
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6. Define the following terms:
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7. Why was the renaissance period important?
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8. What happened with the development of music printing?
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9. When was the earliest score printed and what did it have?
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10. How was Renaissance music scores different to modern scores?
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11. Why did printed scores have more accuracy?
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The Musical Styles and Forms:
12. What is the name given to religious music?______________________________________________
13. Which religious service do the mass and motet belong to?__________________________________
14. How many parts was the mass written for?_______________________________________________
15. Who led the Protestent Church in Germany in the 16th century?_____________________________
16. What is a German Hymn tune called?___________________________________________________
17. Describe the different forms used in the German Chorale.
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18. Which domination was the Anthem written for and how many types of Anthem are there?
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19. Fully describe the Full and Verse Anthem.
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20. What does Polychoral mean?
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21. Who wrote some of the most impressive polychoral pieces?
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22. Name as many different types of secular music as you can and describe each.
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23. Who was the most famous composer of the English Madrigal?_______________________________
The Composers:
24. Make a timeline of each composer’s life marking the main dates.
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25. Make a guide of each composers life discussing compositions and forms used.
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26. What are the similarities and differences of each composer?
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27. What new techniques were the composers using?
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Instruments:
28. Please list and briefly describe the instruments used in the Renaissance period.
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29. What is a consort? What different kinds of consort are there and how are they different?
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30. Please close read the following passage on Renaissance music. Use the chunking method of close
reading to complete this portion of the assignment.
Instrumental music took on a life of its own during the
Renaissance period. Music was written specifically for instruments,
although not usually for specific instruments! The music was
written with two or three or four parts and the musicians played
the parts on whatever instruments were available. Instruments
were grouped in "consorts", the same type of instrument in more
than one size ranging from high to low. For example, the flute of
the day was the recorder; recorders came in four or more sizes:
treble, alto, bass, contrabass. Most often music was performed by
a consort of like instruments, possibly with a tabor (hand drum)
added.
Much of the instrumental music of the time was written in a
polyphonic form. In polyphonic music each part had its own path
-- the instruments were not moving together at the same time.
One instrument would start a melody, then a second instrument
would join with the same melody a few measures later, then the
third instrument, etc. -- much like a round. The big difference
between this music and rounds was that once the beginning part
of the melody was introduced, that musical line might go off in a
different direction than the others, and sometimes all of the lines
would come together and play the same rhythms for a while. In
rounds, everyone sings/plays exactly the same melody from start
to finish.
Dance music was also a very popular style for instrumentalists and
sometimes the musicians would simply play vocal music on their
instruments. If you were in Elizabethan England and going to
the Globe Theatre to see a play by William Shakespeare,
chances are you would find musicians there to entertain you
before the play began. They would be playing dance tunes in
consorts of like instruments, or singing madrigals, or singing love
songs to the accompaniment of a lute. You very well might even
hear the love song, "Greensleeves" (Some of us know this as the
melody for the Christmas carol, "What Child is This", but it was
originally a Renaissance song of lost love.)