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First Name: _____________________ Last Name: ___________________________ Class Period: _____

Medieval and Renaissance

Middle Ages: c. 500 – 1450 Renaissance: c. 1450 – 1600

Life in the Medieval: (please match)

• Clothing

______ ______ ______ ________ ______ _______ ______ ________ ______

• Homes o Most homes were _____________, damp and ______________.

o Windows were very ______________, to only allow a small amount of light.

o Most homes only had _____________ or ___________ rooms.

o Wealthy homes were generally ______________ and highly decorated.

• Feudal Life

o Small communities were ruled by a _______________ or a _____________.

Peasant Male, Peasant Female, Noble-Woman, Nobleman, Monk, Nun

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War

___________________ This was the name for the Holy Wars that took place between the 11th and 13th Centuries. (Europeans against Moslem countries)

___________________ A system of hierarchy during the Middle Ages. The king lent land to

noblemen. In return, the noblemen supplied knights for battle. The knights, servants, and peasants gave loyalty to the lords.

Exploration

___________________ This man traveled from Europe to China and opened up trade for silk, spices, and new ideas.

___________________ This man traveled to the “New World” in 1492.

Churches and Universities

___________________ This place was the center for learning.

___________________ Later in this time, these were founded to teach religion, law, medicine and the arts. Art and Literature

Who painted the following?

The Creation of Adam Two Cherubs Mona Lisa

_________________ __________________ _____________

Authors

___________________ This man wrote the Canterbury Tales.

___________________ This man wrote Romeo and Juliet.

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Music

What are the following?

1. Sacred Music: _______________________________________________

2. Secular Music: _______________________________________________

Match the style of music with its definition.

____ Gregorian Chant A. Musicians began singing different parts instead of everyone singing the same notes. It led to the development of harmony.

____ Polyphony B. Two or more singers perform the same music but come in at different times.

____ Motet C. Also known as “Plainchant.” They had a single melody line with no accompaniment. Words were in Latin and were sung by men’s choirs or soloists.

____ Canon/Round D. A short religious piece that might have plainchant for one line, a love song in another part and a hymn for a third. The different parts can even be sung in different languages.

Fill in the Missing Information

1. __________________: Members of nobility, many were knights. They composed musical

poems about courtly love, knightly adventures, and chivalry but often left the performance of

their works to less aristocratic musicians.

2. __________________: Working musicians. They wandered from town to town. They

sang, played instruments, danced, juggled, and performed magic tricks. (The word “Juggler”

came from this term.

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Medieval Composers Fill in the missing information.

Composer’s Name

Date of Birth and

Death

Information Song

He was choirmaster of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the 1100’s. He composed important choral works for the entire church year.

He was a choirmaster at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. He held the position of choirmaster after Leonin. He is credited with inventing the motet.

She was elected a Magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136. She founded monasteries, wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems. She wrote over 100 letters, 70 poems, and 9 books. She composed 72 songs.

He was a French composer who worked at the age of twenty for a warrior king. He traveled much of his life around Europe, accompanying the king to military battles. At the time of his death, he was considered one of the most important religious leaders of his time. In fact, he composed one of the oldest surviving masses written in four parts. He is best-known for his secular music.

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Renaissance Period Fill in the missing information.

• What are the beginning and the end dates of the Renaissance Period? _________________

• The word “Renaissance” means _________________. Merchants and professionals began

to gather wealth. With their leisure time, they began to broaden their interests beyond

___________ music and art. This resulted in the “rebirth” of interest in the values of

_________________ and __________________ cultures.

Changes in the Renaissance Period

1. Composers began writing both ______________ and _______________ music.

2. ______________________ and ________________ began employing court musicians.

3. _______________ began being printed. In ___________, books of _____________

began being printed. Anyone who could read them could now play the music.

4. Because of the improvements to _________________, composers began writing music for

______________________ only.

New Music in the Renaissance Period

• __________________: vocal works about great emotions such as love and despair. They

were usually unaccompanied vocal works with four or five parts.

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Renaissance Composers Fill in the missing information.

Composer’s Name

Date of Birth and

Death

Information Song

A French composer who began his career as a singer in a cathedral when he was 19 years old. He was considered one of the best composers of the time. He composed music that used chords and harmonies that made it sound more like the music of today.

An Italian composer who spent his entire career in Rome, working for the Catholic Church. He is considered one of the great masters of the Renaissance style. He composed 104 masses, 373 motets, and many religious madrigals. He also composed almost 100 secular madrigals.

He was an English composer. He composed many madrigals about love and nature.

He was an English composer of the late Renaissance. He is considered to be one of the great masters of the Renaissance. Some consider him the greatest English composer of all time. He worked in the Royal Chapel of Queen Elizabeth.

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Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Label the following instruments.

__________________ ____________________ _________________

___________________ _____________________ ___________________

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History of Music Notation Fill in the missing information. Name Dates Information

Church worried that music would be lost because there was no method of music notation.

They were the first form of notation. They told the singer that the music went up or down. They were meant to help the musician remember the melody but they did not give exact information. The singer needed to know the music first.

They were marks at particular heights over the words of the song. They told the singer which pitch to sing. However, they were not written on a staff so they did not give exact pitch.

He was an Italian monk and music teacher. He invented the music staff, which showed the specific pitches of notes. He created the symbols for flats and natural notes.

By 1200’s

By about 1400

1500’s

By 1750 (End of the Baroque Period)