The Renaissance Era

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  1. 3. A guitar-like instrument used during the Renaissance Era.
  2. 4. This instrument is an ancestor of the oboe.
  3. 10. Started the Protestant Reformation.
  4. 12. All voices singing the same melodic line simultaneously.
  5. 14. This instrument is an early type of trombone.
  6. 16. The era between 1400 and 1600 is called the__Era.
  7. 19. To sing without accompaniment.
  8. 20. This composer is considered to be one of England's greatest Renaissance composers.
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  1. 1. The ancestor of the violin.
  2. 2. An instrument that you hit, strike, scrape or shake to play.
  3. 5. A secular form of music during the Renaissance Era.
  4. 6. 'Grandfather' of opera. Composed during the Renaissance Era.
  5. 7. A great Italian composer during the Renaissance Era.
  6. 8. Most sacred music composed during the Renaissance Era was written in this language.
  7. 9. A form of Sacred music sung by monks.
  8. 11. A person who writes music.
  9. 13. Renaissance music was either Sacred or__
  10. 15. A male singer castrated in boyhood so as to retain a soprano or alto voice.
  11. 17. The Mass, the Motet and the hymn are different forms of___music found in Renaissance music.
  12. 18. The word Renaissance means_____.