The medieval and renaissence

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Across
  1. 4. – composed songs that were more religious.
  2. 7. Da Palestrina – “choirmaster”
  3. 9. – a secular vocal form of music popular in Italy and France.
  4. 10. – A sacred choral composition that sets the fixed portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music.
  5. 11. – a fretted, guitar-like instrument with six strings and a long neck which was very popular during 1450-1650
  6. 12. – stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked to produce sounds.
  7. 14. – has a single line of melody without any harmony or any other form of accompaniment.
  8. 16. des Prez – The single most influential composer of the middle Renaissance
  9. 17. – poems about knightly adventure were addressed to some fair lady, real or imaginary, known or unknown
Down
  1. 1. – a sacred vocal music which flourished during the thirteenth century in France.
  2. 2. – most important form of vernacular sacred songs in Italy.
  3. 3. – the oldest form of stringed keyboard instrument, and a predecessor of the piano
  4. 5. – “rebirth”
  5. 6. Byrd – “Father of Music”
  6. 8. – several parts or voices are combined together contrapuntally or in counterpoint.
  7. 13. – sang love song called “minne”, an old German word for love.
  8. 15. – bowed string instrument.