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What is not characterized as secular music making during the Renaissance
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Women couldn't preform music professionally
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A expressive device used by Renaissance composers to pictorialize words musically
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word painting
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Where was the madrigal first developed?
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Italy
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Where were madrigals with simple, pastoral, and often humorous texts were favored in
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England
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What would be considered an appropriate outdoor instrument?
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the shawm
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Tielman Susato published music in which major European center?
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Antwerp
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True or False: During the Renaissance, the study of a musical instrument was considered highly improper for ladies
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False
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True of False: England adopted the Italian madrigal and developed it into a native form
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True
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True of False: Instrumental music in the sixteenth century often did not specify its instrumentation
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True
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Which genre of vocal music was NOT used in Renaissance church services?
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chansons
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The fixed melody used as a basis for elaborate polyphonic writing in the Renaissance was called?
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a cantus firmus
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What makes up the movements of the Ordinary of the Mass?
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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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Which early Renaissance composer exerted a powerful influence on generations of composers who followed?
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Josquin
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Who was the leader of the protestant reformation
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Martin Luther
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After the Protestant revolt of the early sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church responded with a movement to recapture the loyalty of its people. This was known as:
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the counter-Reformation
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Which of the following was NOT a recommendation of the Council of Trent?
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to use more instruments
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Which composer responded to the reforms of the Council of Trent in an exemplary fashion?
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Palestrina
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True or False: Josquin's career centered exclusively in his native France.
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False
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True or False: The council of Trent took place in the mid-sixteenth centry
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True
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Early notion suggested melodic conours using small ascending and descending signs called___
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neumes
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The Notre Dame style of polyphony, in which the tenor line was based on a preexisting chant melody and the upper voice moved freely
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organum
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Summer is icumen is an example of?
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Secular Polyphony
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Music of the 14th century developed what kind of style
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Ars Nova
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the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
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Vernacular
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A solo piece of music meant to be played without instruments
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A capella
