Seventh Grade Renaissance Period Test
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Full credit will be given to complete answers that are neat, use good sentence and/or paragraph
structure, and are both complete and correct.
1. Listening (24 points, 3 points for each one)
Use your notes to select the composer and piece of music played. Write it in the correct
blank.
Possible answers
Guillaume Du Fay – L’homme arme Mass
Josquin des Pres – Ave Maria . . virgo serena
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Pope Marcellus Mass
Giovanni Gabrieli – Motet, O quam suavis
Josquin des Prez – Chanson, Mille regretz
Tielman Susato – Three Dances
Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigal, Ecco mormorar l’onde
John Farmer – Madrigal, Fair Phyllis
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2. (10 points)
The first song excerpt that you hear is from the late 1460’s. Using your notes, explain how you can tell
that it is from the Renaissance period.
This piece is an example of Renaissance music . . . ____________________________________________
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3. (20 points, 10 points for each answer)
a. Explain the type of instrument that you would have liked to learn during the Renaissance period.
b. Who would you likely have learned this instrument from?
If I lived during the Renaissance era, I would like to have learned to play the . . . _______________
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I probably would have learned to play this instrument from . . . ______________________________
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4. (30 points, 10 points for the answer to each of the three questions)
a. How were women able to contribute to music in the Renaissance era?
b. Which composer from our notes would you like to have met and why?
c. Which type of Renaissance music is your favorite? Use your notes. Pick one. Explain
why.
a. Women were able to contribute to music in the Renaissance by . . . __________________________
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b. I would wanted to have met _______________________ because _______________________________
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c. _________________________________________________ is my favorite type of Renaissance music.
It is my favorite because . . . _______________________________________________________________
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5. Timeline (19 points, 1 point each)
Put the following music schools, pieces, and composers in the correct place on the timeline
below. Use each one once. There will be empty blanks left over.
COMPOSERS
MUSIC SCHOOLS
MUSIC STYLES
Guillaume Du Fay
Burgundian School
motet
Josquin des Pres
Franco-Flemish School
chorale
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina English School
anthem
Giovanni Gabrieli
chanson
Thomas Morley
madrigal
Tielman Susato
Claudio Monteverdi
John Farmer
Thomas Tallis
William Byrd
Gilles Binchois
1450
1500
1550
1600
Second half of the 15th century
First ½ of 16th century
Second ½ of 16th century
(1450 to 1499)
(1500-1550)
(1551-1600)
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