Exam 7: The Renaissance

In medieval music the plainchant melody was in the ________ voice,but in the early Renaissance it moved to the ________ voice.

The great,large-scale compositional challenge of the Renaissance was musical unification of:

Define motet as it was known to sixteenth-century composers.

Define Gregorian hymn and give an example of one.

The words of "Hanaq pachap kusikuynin" are in the native Andean language:

Define a cappella.Explain why it was the ideal tone color for High Renaissance composers.

In terms of texture,High Renaissance composers:

The composer used the melody of the plainsong hymn ________ as the basis of the Pange lingua Mass.

Describe the change in attitude of Renaissance composers with regard to medieval authority and intricacy in composition.For example,what was the Renaissance attitude toward isorhythm?

What do you hear after the brief plainchant section in the Kyrie of Pange lingua?

Renaissance means "rebirth." What was reborn during the Renaissance,and what was the source of the inspiration for the Renaissance? Discuss.

Which two techniques were blended to form the compositional style for the Mass,the motet,and the chanson in the High Renaissance?

Define and discuss the processes of declamation and word painting,through which Renaissance composers attempted to achieve heightened expressiveness.

For which two types of composition is Dufay best known?

What civilizations posed the first great challenge of religious conversion to the missionaries in the 1500s? Discuss briefly.

In the late Renaissance,composers applied their compositional style to new secular genres.Describe two of them.

Why was the motet more attractive than the Mass to sixteenth-century composers?

In Pange lingua,plainchant is used to open:

Describe the change in the use of imitation from the beginning to the end of the fifteenth century.

Josquin composed works in which genre(s)?