Red Bank Middle School
Instrumental General Music
Medieval-Renaissance Test

1.  The ____________________ were a period of Roman Imperial decline in which the ________________  (Roman peace) failed, leaving citizens in previous areas of Roman control unprotected.

2.  _________________ is a single unaccompanied melody over sacred text in Latin.  Named for Pope Gregory I (reigned 590-604) who codified them during the sixth-century, establishing uniform usage throughout the Western Church.

3.  ____________________ is markings above words, which continues from ancient Greek use to employment in Chant.

4.  _________________ is chant with two or more voice parts moving at first in parallel perfect intervals.  

5.  _____________________ are symbols (ecphonetic notation) around a single line drawn over the text for pitch reference.  

6.  The addition of rhythm and rhythmic notation to church music began in the movement known as __________________________________.

7.  ________________________- medieval folk musicians of southern France (Provence) and England.

8.  ________________________- medieval folk musicians of northern France.

9.  ________________________- medieval folk musicians of Germanic northern Europe.

10.  The word "renaissance" is the French word for ______________________?

11.  The invention of the _____________________________ was a significant factor in the explosion of learning during the Renaissance.

12.  The Italian explorer ________________________________ is credited with discovery of "The New World" in his voyage of (the year) _______________.

13.  ___________________ was a prominent northern Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and physiologist who typified the "Renaissance Man" in his mastery of many disciplines.

14.  ________________________, on orders from the Pope, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome.

15.  ___________________________ was a prominent English writer of poetry and plays during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

16.  _____________________________ was a priest, physician, jurist, and astrologer who proposed the theory of a heliocentric (sun centered) universe, overturning the previously held theory of a geocentric (earth centered) universe.

17.  Martin Luther composed hymns in (language)________________________, and advocated the use of the ______________________ in worship, opposing the Catholic practice of conducting worship in Latin.

18.  ____________________________ established the Protestant church in England in 1534 in response to the Pope's refusal to allow his divorce from his first wife, Catherine.

19.  ____________________________ was the most famous representative of the "Roman School" of Renaissance polyphonic choral music.  His style became a model for Catholic choral writing.

20.   _____________________ was the late Italian Renaissance composer especially noted for his work in the Venetian polychoral style.

21.  His works were written for performance in the Cathedral of ____________________ in _________________.

22.  _________________________ a form of secular choral music of the Renaissance featuring polyphonic part singing and special vocal techniques.

23.  The sacred counterpart of the Renaissance madrigal was the ____________________.

24.  ________________________ is the practice of illustrating words with music, common in Renaissance madrigals and motets.

25.  ___________________________ was an English Renaissance composer especially noted for composition of English madrigals.