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What was the first ballet in history?
The ballet comique de la Reine
What genre of dance gave birth to today's ballet?
Dance Theatre
the two different dance genres created during this time were?
social dance and dance theatre
What did the masters of dance do?
established the rules and steps by teaching courtiers and writing manuals with choreography and music
What was the type of dance that was lively?
The Galliard
Which dance was processional with a slow binary rhythm consisting of three parts, repeated twice?
The Pavane
what was the name for dance danced by nobility?
Courtly or ballroom dance
What was one of the favorite entertainments of nobility?
Dance
What instrument category would the flute belong to?
Bas music
what is Bas music?
instruments of soft sound intensity for indoor performances
What is Haut music?
instruments with great sound power. groups intended for outdoor performances
What were the two instrument categories during this time period?
Haut music and Bas music
True or False: Renaissance instrumental forms often borrowed melodies from vocal music
True
What is a "cantus firmus"
a melody that served as a base for the composition upon which polyphony was built
What type of instrumental form does the composer start with a simple theme that is later repeated with different modifications?
Pieces based on variation
What instrumental form does the Fantasia and Toccata belong to?
Pieces based on improvisation
what type of instrumental forms do the Ricercare and Canzona belong to?
adapted pieces from vocal works
What new notation was created during this period that uses numbers, letters, or not values?
Tablature
What are the 3 types of composition of instrumental music?
Adapted pieces from vocal works, pieces based on improvisation, pieces based on variation
What music continued to be banned from the Church?
instrumental music
What type of music did composer get more interested in during the Renaissance?
Instrumental music
What is Spanish Romance music?
a narrative strophic song about historic and legendary matters or about social events
French vocal form with polyphonic texture and instrumental accompaniment?
Chanson
Italian vocal form of four or five voices, with compound polyphonic texture that reflects sense and meaning using expressive elements known as madrigalisms
Madrigal
The 3 main typical Spanish song forms were what?
Romance, Villancico and Ensalada
the secular vocal music based on polyphony that has a soprano,contralto, tenor, and bass is called what?
Mixed Quartet
Name an important Counter-Reformation composer
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, Cristóbal Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria
what is mass?
A compound musical form that put together all the pieces of liturgy
The Catholic Counter-Reformation created what 2 types of music
Motet, Mass
What is a motet?
important form of Catholic religious polyphony
The anthym belonged to which branch of christianity?
The Anglican Church, started by Henry VIII of England
What are the three branches of Christianity during this time?
Protestant, Anglican, Catholic
What is the protestant chorale?
simple composition based on popular melodies written for four voices in homophonic texture
Who initiated the Protestant Reformation, breaking away from the Catholic Church
Martin Luther in 1510
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