Question 1

What invention made it easier for knowledge and culture to spread?

Accepted Answer

Printing press

Question 2

Already existed in the Middle Ages (Polyphonic Composition). Several parts with different rythms.

Accepted Answer

Motet

Question 3

The Renaissance was a result of the ideas of?

Accepted Answer

Humanism

Question 4

Its name comes from the tunes that peasants (villanus) sang in the villages.

Accepted Answer

Villancico

Question 5

Who was placed at the centre of everything?

Accepted Answer

Humans

Question 6

What Christian branch fought Catholicism?

Accepted Answer

Protestantism

Question 7

Artists returned to the artistic taste of the classical world and tried to achieve an ideal form of beauty.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 8

What event ended the modern period?

Accepted Answer

The French Revolution

Question 9

Who printed the first music book in history?

Accepted Answer

Ottaviano Petrucci

Question 10

Why couldn't Renaissance musicians use compositions from antiquity?

Accepted Answer

There were no records of them

Question 11

Liturgical texts written in Latin based on the fixed parts of the religious ceremony

Accepted Answer

Mass

Question 12

In what century had the movement its origin?

Accepted Answer

14C

Question 13

Select the impostor (Renaissance textures)

Accepted Answer

Tortelinni-homorhythmic sounds

Question 14

What German theologist and monk started teh Protestant Reformation in Germany?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 15

Definition of a Renaissance texture: Composed for several parts, there is a 		main melodic line that can be identified clearly. The other parts perform the harmonic accompaniment (normally consisting

Accepted Answer

Melody-dominated homophony

Question 16

Common form in the Protestan liturgy. Based on pre-existing melodies sung in the vernacular. AAB structure.

Accepted Answer

Chorale

Question 17

nstrumentalists, who usually accompanied vocal pieces, used these as a base for instrumental works

Accepted Answer

Compositions based on vocal music

Question 18

Refers to the way the notes are written vertically, meaning the notes that are performed simultaneously.

Accepted Answer

Harmony

Question 19

Where did the Renaissance start?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 20

Who was the first woman to publish her compositions?

Accepted Answer

Maddalena Casulana

Question 21

Select the impostor within these Renaissance music characteristics

Accepted Answer

It focused on the beauty of chaos

Question 22

What new social class became more influential?

Accepted Answer

Bourgeoisie

Question 23

Vocal music became more important musically, and was developed in both the religious and the....

Accepted Answer

secular world

Question 24

Refers to the way the notes are written horizontally on the score, meaning the notes that are performed one after the other.

Accepted Answer

Melody

Question 25

What was the dominant secular vocal music type?

Accepted Answer

Madrigal

Question 26

Name of the Spanish songbooks with pieces of music by several composers in the Renaissance

Accepted Answer

Cancionero

Question 27

This secular vocal composition was a combination of different forms

Accepted Answer

Ensalada

Question 28

In the Renaissance, popular dances became court dances, performed in palace halls by the nobility. Members of the court required good dance training. There was no improvisation

Accepted Answer

true

Question 29

What is secular vocal music?

Accepted Answer

Non-religious vocal songs

Question 30

What started the modern period?

Accepted Answer

The fall of the Byzantine Empire

Question 31

During the Renaissance, instruments were allowed in liturgy

Accepted Answer

false

The Music of the Renaissance Trivia Quiz

2) Already existed in the Middle Ages (Polyphonic Composition). Several parts with different rythms.

3) The Renaissance was a result of the ideas of?

4) Its name comes from the tunes that peasants (villanus) sang in the villages.

5) Who was placed at the centre of everything?

6) What Christian branch fought Catholicism?

7) Artists returned to the artistic taste of the classical world and tried to achieve an ideal form of beauty.

8) What event ended the modern period?

9) Who printed the first music book in history?

10) Why couldn't Renaissance musicians use compositions from antiquity?

11) Liturgical texts written in Latin based on the fixed parts of the religious ceremony

12) In what century had the movement its origin?

13) Select the impostor (Renaissance textures)

14) What German theologist and monk started teh Protestant Reformation in Germany?

15) Definition of a Renaissance texture: Composed for several parts, there is a main melodic line that can be identified clearly. The other parts perform the harmonic accompaniment (normally consisting

16) Common form in the Protestan liturgy. Based on pre-existing melodies sung in the vernacular. AAB structure.

17) nstrumentalists, who usually accompanied vocal pieces, used these as a base for instrumental works

18) Refers to the way the notes are written vertically, meaning the notes that are performed simultaneously.

19) Where did the Renaissance start?

20) Who was the first woman to publish her compositions?

21) Select the impostor within these Renaissance music characteristics

22) What new social class became more influential?

23) Vocal music became more important musically, and was developed in both the religious and the....

24) Refers to the way the notes are written horizontally on the score, meaning the notes that are performed one after the other.

25) What was the dominant secular vocal music type?

26) Name of the Spanish songbooks with pieces of music by several composers in the Renaissance

27) This secular vocal composition was a combination of different forms

28) In the Renaissance, popular dances became court dances, performed in palace halls by the nobility. Members of the court required good dance training. There was no improvisation

29) What is secular vocal music?

30) What started the modern period?

31) During the Renaissance, instruments were allowed in liturgy