Chapter 7: Renaissance Vocabulary and People
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- 3. The way words are set to music, in terms of rhythm, accent, etc.
- 5. A simple religious song in several stanzas in strophic form, for congregational singing
- 9. Musical illustration of the meaning of a word or a short verbal phrase
- 11. a slow, 16th-century dance in duple meter
- 14. a type of polyphony where the various melodic lines use the same themes
- 15. one melody of interest combined with chords or other subsidiary sounds
- 17. The modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music
- 18. Choral music for voices alone, without instruments
- 19. famous Renaissance composer; other composers would put his name on their music so it would sell better.
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- 1. composed "Ave maris stella", a harmonization of a plainchant
- 2. The main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance
- 4. The church's reaction to the Reformation
- 6. Leader who broke away from the Catholic Church; started the Protestant movement
- 7. Later Renaissance composer credited with saving polyphony
- 8. A sort passage of imitative polyphony based on a single theme
- 10. A Renaissance court dance in triple meter
- 12. composed "As Latmos Hill", an English madrigal with word painting
- 13. "Rebirth"; complex current of thought that worked deep changes in Europe in the 14th to 16th centuries, starting in Italy
- 16. The main Roman Catholic service; or the music written for it