Music Appreciation Unit Four Vocabulary

Voices or instruments start from the right side and are followed by voices from the left.

Form of madrigal that is performed in a number of different ways, including with or without accompaniment.

Form of madrigal that was lighter in style than the madrigal proper and it was often danced to as well as sung.

An Englishman born in 1543; was one composer who created consort music.

A piece of music where one part echoes or imitates what the other part has just sang for a relatively substantial section of the music.

Easy to sing melodies, often based on traditional folk songs.

An instrumental ensemble consisting of six instruments: flute or recorder, lute, cittern, violin or treble viola de gamba, bandore, and the bass viola de gamba.

A Franco-Flemish composer who was born in Brussels, he was a prolific composer and one of the most influential of the fifteenth century.

Born in 1553, he composed in a variety of forms, but he preferred sacred and instrumental music.

Also known as the wheel fiddle; this instrument features strings that are surrounded by a wheel, which is turned by a crank mechanism.

Born around 1450, he is often considered the master of Renaissance polyphonic music.

Voice compositions that employ a number of voices (often from three to six) but are unaccompanied by instruments.

In this form, the madrigal was through-composed. It used quite a bit of word-painting, which is the matching of music to the words in the text.

"A piece of music in several parts with words" and they involve varied choral compositions. In Latin, the term describes "the movement of different voices against one another."

This instrument was developed long before the Renaissance and it produces different tones depending on the vibration produced.

Born in 1525, his work had a large impact on sacred music and on polyphonic music. One of the characteristics of much of his work is that any dissonance was placed on the "weak" beats of a measure, which helped to create a smoother style of polyphonic music.

Printed the first significant collection of polyphonic music.

Typically thought of as European music that developed during the Renaissance period.

A type of trombone that was used in churches with sacred music pieces.

Woodwinds that were about twelve inches long with seven finger holes. It was the most popular double reed instrument of the Renaissance period, perhaps because it was loud enough to be played in the streets or with other louder instruments like drums without being drowned out.

Were developed in the fifteenth century and were played with bows. They had six strings and the instrument was rested between the musician's legs in a similar position to what we are used to seeing cellos played today.