Name: __________________________
Date: ___________________________
Renaissance Period Worksheet
1. The Renaissance was an age of ________________________________.
2. The __________________________ marks the passing of European society from
religious to secular.
3. It lasted roughly from ________________ to ________________.
4. ________________________ is unaccompanied choral music.
5. The texture of Renaissance music is primarily _____________________________.
6. Two main forms of sacred Renaissance vocal music are the ___________________
and ________________________.
7. The
Latin text.
is a polyphonic sacred choral work set to a
8. The ____________________________ is a piece for several solo voices set to a
short poem usually about love.
9. The Flemish composer ____________________ was a master of Renaissance
music, including canonic devices.
10. Renaissance composers wrote music to enhance the meaning and the emotion of
the text which is known as ________________________.
Name: __________________________
Date: ___________________________
11.
, was one of the most important Italian Renaissance
composers of the 16th century, and was also known as the “Catholic Church” composer.
12. Music activity began to shift from the churches to the __________________ .
13. By the 16th century, ____________________ became the leading music center in
Europe.
14. Palestrina’s
compositions.
is one of his most famous
15. The Renaissance madrigal originated in __________________ around 1520.
16. An important instrument of the Renaissance was the _______________________.
17. Renaissance composers wrote music to enhance the meaning and emotion of the
________________________.
18. ________________________ was the favored compositional technique used in
choral music.
19. The Renaissance _________________ is a polyphonic choral composition
comprised of five sections.
20. ________________________ and _____________________ were two of the
great English Madrigalists.