Music Theory: Middle Age/ Renaissance - Flashcards

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The phrase the Middle Ages refers to the period of European history spanning

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450-1450

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The Renaissance may be described as an age of

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Rebirth (all are correct)

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The intellectual movement called humanism

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Focused human life and its experiences (exploration and adventure)

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The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called

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Humanism

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Which of the following statements is not true of humanism?

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The humanists were basically atheistic in their beliefs

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In the Middle Ages, most important musicians were

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Priests

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A virtual monopoly on learning during the Middle Ages was held by

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Monks in monasteries

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During the Middle Ages, women

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were not permitted to sing in church

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Church officials expected monks to sing with

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Proper pronunciation and the clarity of tone clarity

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Bernard of Clairvaux ordered his monks to sing

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Vigorously with manliness

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The church frowned on instruments because of their

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earlier role in pagan rites

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The use of organs in church

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Distracted the listeners from worship

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What we know about instruments in church comes mainly from

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the pictures and literary descriptions of the day

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Most medieval music was

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vocal

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We know from paintings and literary descriptions of the Middle Ages that

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instruments were used

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The view of the later medieval church on music during religious services was that it should be

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Used only as a discreet accompaniment

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Church authorities in the Middle Ages

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wanted music in their religious services as a discreet accompaniment

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The music of the Medieval monks and was called

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Gregorian chant

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Gregorian chant

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(all answers are correct)

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Gregorian chant consists of

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melody sung without accompaniment

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Which of the following is not true of Gregorian chant?

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It is usually polyphonic in texture

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Gregorian chant is seldom heard today because

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(all answers are correct)

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Gregorian chant melodies tend to move

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Stepwise

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Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I, who

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apparently created it (medieval legend)

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Pope Gregory the Great

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Reorganized the Catholic church liturgy during his reign from 590-604

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The two types of services at which monks and nuns sang were

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the office and the mass

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The highlight of the day for monks and nuns was

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the mass

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The earliest surviving chant manuscripts date from about the _______ century

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9th

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The church modes were

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The basic scales of Western music during the Middle Ages

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The Church modes are

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like the major and minor scales in that they consist of seven tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher

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Alleluia

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(All answers are correct)

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The form of the chant Alleluia: Vidimus stellam is

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ABA

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Hildegard of Bingen was

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(All answers are correct)

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The earliest extant liturgical morality play, Ordo virtutum (Play of the Virtues), was composed by

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Hildegard of Bingen

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The first large body of secular songs that survives in the decipherable notation was composed

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during the 12th and 13th centuries

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The French secular songs of the Middle Ages usually dealt with

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love, crusades, and spinning (all answers)

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The first large body of secular songs that survives in the decipherable notation was composed

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French nobles called troubadours and traverse

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Trouvere songs of the Middle Ages dealt with all of the following subjects except

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religion

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Which of the following statements is not true of secular music in the Middle Ages?

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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time where there were no newspapers, were accordingly ranked on a social level

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A famous French woman troubadour was

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Beatriz de Dia

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Beatriz de Dia was

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a woman troubadour

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The notation of the secular songs in the Middle Ages does not indicate

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Rhythm

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The medieval jongleurs, important sources of information in a time when there were no newspapers, were

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On the lowest social level

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As a young student in Paris, Henri de Malines sang

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Monophonic songs in various languages

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One function of secular music in the late Middle Ages was to provide accompaniment for

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dancing

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An estampie is a medieval

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dance

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Which of the following statements is not true of the medieval estampie?

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It was intended for religious services

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In the recording of the medieval estampie, the melody is played on a rebec, a

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medieval bowed string instrument

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The first steps in a revolution that eventually transformed Western music began sometime between 700 and 900 with the

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addition of a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant

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The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime between 700 and 900, when

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monks in monastery choirs began to add a second melodic line to Gregorian Chant

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______________ is a term applied to medieval music that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines

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Organum

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Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines is called

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Organum

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Medieval music theorists favored the use of triads, he basic consonant chords of music

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The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was

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Paris

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In medieval times, most polyphonic music was created by

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Placing new melodic lines against known chants

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Leonin and Pertain are notable because they

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(All answers are gay)

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The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm were

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Leonin and Petronin

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An outstanding composer of the school of Notre Dame was

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Perotin

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Among other causes, secular music became more important than sacred music in the 14th century because

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(all answers are correct)

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The term ars nova music is its use of

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syncopation

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Secular music in the 14th century

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(all answers are correct)

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The term ars nova refers to

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Italian and French music of the 14th century

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A new system of music notation that allowed composers to specify almost any rhythmical pattern had evolved by the

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early 14th century

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The ars nova or new art differed from older music in that

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A new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern

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An outstanding composer of the ars nova was

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Guillaume de Machaut

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Guillaume de Machaut was a _________ as well musician

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(All answers are correct)

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Guilliame de Machut's compositions consist mainly of

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Love songs with instrumental accompaniment

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Which of the following is not a part of the mass ordinary?

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Ave Maria

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The Renaissance in music occurred between

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1450-1600

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Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?

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The Catholic church was even more powerful in the Renaissance that during the Middle Ages

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Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what was then

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Flanders (Belgium)

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Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?

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Instrumental music became more important that vocal music during the Renaissance

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The leading music center in the 16th century Europe was

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Italy

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The texture of the Renaissance music is chiefly

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Polyphonic

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Renaissance music sounds fuller than medieval music because

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(All answers are correct)

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A capella refers to

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unaccompanied choral music

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Renaissance melodies are usually easy to sing because

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The melody often moves a long a scale with a few large leaps

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The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the

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Motet

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The Renaissance motet is a

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Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass

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Which of the following is not a part of the Renaissance mass?

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Alleluia

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Josquin Deprez spent much of his life in

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Italy

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Josquin Desprez was a contemporary of

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Christopher Columbus

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Which of the following is not true?

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Joaquin spent most of his life in the province of Hainaut, today a part of Belgium

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Palestrina's career centered in

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Rome

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Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina's

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Music includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works

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The movement in which the Catholic church sought to correct abuses and malpractices within its structure is known as

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the Counter-Reformation

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An attempt was made to purify Catholic church music as a result of the

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Deliberations of the Council of Trent

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The Council of Trent attacked the church music of the Renaissance because it

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used secular tunes, noisy instruments, and theatrical singing

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Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass sounds fuller than Joaquin's Ave Maria because

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Six voices instead of 4

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The Renaissance madrigal began around in 1520 in

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Italy

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During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to

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(all answers are correct)

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Which of the following composers in not an important madrigalist?

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Joaquin Desprez

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The Renaissance madrigal is a

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Piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, about love

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The development of the English madrigal can be traced to 1588 and considered a result of

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the publication in London of a volume of translated Italian madrigals

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The madrigal anthology The Triumphes of Oriana was written in the honor of

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Queen Elizabeth 1

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Thomas Weekly's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its

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word painting

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Besides the madrigal, the __________ was another type of secular vocal music which enjoyed popularity during the Renaissance

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Lute song

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The ______ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home

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lute

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