Renaissance Music

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  1. 4. Family of woodwind instruments whose sound is produced by blowing into a "whistle" mouthpiece, usually made of wood or plastic.
  2. 5. Sacred choral composition made up of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
  3. 7. Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time.
  4. 8. Technique of combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole.
  5. 10. Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines.
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  1. 1. Keyboard instrument, widely used from about 1500 to 1775, whose sound is produced by plectra which pluck its wire strings.
  2. 2. Musical representation of specific poetic images—for example, a falling melodic line to accompany the word descending.
  3. 3. Polyphonic instrumental composition which makes extensive use of imitation.
  4. 5. Composition for several voices set to a short secular poem, usually about love, combining homophonic and polyphonic textures and often using word painting.
  5. 6. Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than that of the mass; one of the two main forms of sacred Renaissance music.
  6. 9. Member of a family of bowed string instruments popular during the Renaissance, having six strings and a fretted fingerboard.