The Renaissance may be described as an age of ______.
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The Renaissance in music occurred between ______.
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Which of the following statements is not true of the Renaissance?
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Many prominent Renaissance composers, who held important posts all over Europe, came from what
was then ______.
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Which of the following statements is not true of Renaissance music?
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The leading music center in sixteenth-century Europe was ______.
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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly ______.
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To what does a cappella refer?
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Why are Renaissance melodies usually easy to sing?
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The two main forms of sacred Renaissance music are the mass and the ______.
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What is the Renaissance motet?
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Josquin Desprez spent much of his life in ______.
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Palestrina's career centered in ______.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's ______.
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Why did the Council of Trent attack the church music of the Renaissance?
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Which statement is true about Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass?
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The Renaissance madrigal began around 1520 in ______.
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During the Renaissance, every educated person was expected to ______.
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Which of the following composers is not an important madrigalist?
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What is the Renaissance madrigal?
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Which of the following describes a difference between English and Italian madrigals?
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Thomas Weelkes's As Vesta Was Descending is notable for its _______.
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Besides the madrigal, the ________ was another type of secular music that enjoyed popularity during
the Renaissance.
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The _________ was the most popular instrument in the Renaissance home. A) shawm
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The lute song was widely cultivated in England from ______.
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Lute songs are mostly __________ in texture.
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A leading English composer of lute songs was ______.
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The expression of ________, as heard in John Dowland's Flow My Tears, was a prominent feature of
English literature and music in the time of William Shakespeare.
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In most lute songs, the lute accompaniment _______.
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Much of the instrumental music composed during the Renaissance was intended for ______.
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Terpsichore, a collection of over 300 dance tunes, was arranged for instrumental ensemble by ______.
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What is the passamezzo?
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What is the galliard?
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Which of the following composers was not a member of the Venetian school of the sixteenth century?
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The focal point of music in Venice was ______.
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St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice was noted for its ______.
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Unlike most Renaissance choral music, Venetian choral music of the late sixteenth century often