Renaissance Era and Renaissance Music

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  1. 3. ______________ is a sacred, vocal polyphonic composition.
  2. 8. ___________________is a secular polyphonic song based on poems.
  3. 9. ______________ is when one group of instruments playing together.
  4. 13. The Catholic ______________ Mass is perhaps the most important type of music from the Renaissance.
  5. 15. ______________ is a polyphonic composition in which two or more melodies repeat each other at different points in the music.
  6. 17. ______________ is where one voice has the melody and the other voices serve as accompaniment.
  7. 19. __________________________is a vocal polyphonic, secular song and is usually about love.
  8. 20. This former priest started the Protestant Reformation.
  9. 21. ______________ was increasingly freed from medieval constraints, and more variety was permitted in range, rhythm, harmony, form, and notation.
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  1. 1. _________________ was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
  2. 2. ________________is the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody.
  3. 4. ______________responsible for painting “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.
  4. 5. The Renaissance Era had a lot of growth cultural,______________ , politically and economically.
  5. 6. This ___________ is painted on the ceiling of the Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. It was created between 1508 and 1512.
  6. 7. In the renaissance era wealthy ______________ began hiring musicians to write and play music for their parties and dances to be held in their homes.
  7. 10. Renaissance literally means "___________" in French.
  8. 11. The Protestant __________________was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism.
  9. 12. In the 1400’s the _________________ came about, and with it came an increasingly informed society.
  10. 14. What is the name of the man who invented the printing press?
  11. 16. ______________________made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of this scientific method of strengthening metals.
  12. 18. Michelangelo sculpted the ______________________ in the late 15th–century and it is considered to be one of the his greatest works. It depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.