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  • The sackbut is an early version of what modern instrument?
    Early trombone
  • What were the main Catholic musical forms?
    Motets and Masses
  • How do you play the lyre?
    Strum it with a plectrum
  • A keyboard instrument, where the strings are plucked
    Harpsichord
  • What is polyphony?
    Polyphony is music with more than one melody.
  • French piece of Renaissance music
    Chanson
  • How do you literally translate Renaissance into english?
    Rebirth
  • Religious piece of music made up of several parts with lyrics in different languages..
    Motet
  • What's the a capella Renaissance secular music, generally about love, called?
    Madrigal
  • Name the 4 instruments we learned about last week
    Viol, Harpsichord, Lyre, Sackbut
  • True or false: The first operas were written at the end of this period.
    True
  • The texture of Renaissance music is mainly...
    Polyphonic
  • The year the printing press was invented
    1501
  • The sackbut belongs to the .... family
    Brass
  • What is the word in english for 'misa'?
    Mass
  • Is the motet religious or secular?
    Religious
  • The most important composer of the Renaissance (Italian)
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • The most important composer (Spanish)
    Tomás Luis de Victoria
  • In which centuries did the Renaissance occur?
    15th and 16th centuries
  • The main subject of secular music
    Love and war
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