Question

Brass instruments were mainly played by professional musicians during the Renaissance, not by amateurs. Based on this fact, an AMATEUR would MOST likely be found playing during this time period?


a sackbut


a trombone


a trumpet


a shawm

Rhetta’s music teacher wants her to create a replica of a stringed instrument from the Renaissance period. What is the MOST accurate choice for Rhetta’s project?


hurdy-gurdy


mouth harp


sackbut


shawm

Catherine wants to learn more about the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music. Which composer should she study to learn more about this type of music?


Giovanni Gabrieli


Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


Josquin des Prez


William Byrd

Monophonic music became increasingly popular during the Renaissance.


True


False

Answer 1

1) a shawm — woodwind instruments (like the shawm) were more commonly played by amateurs; brass (sackbut/trombone/trumpet) were mainly professional.

2) hurdy-gurdy — it is a stringed instrument; the mouth harp is not stringed, and sackbut/shawm are wind instruments.

3) Giovanni Gabrieli — he worked at the end of the Renaissance and his practices (choral/chorus spacing, use of dynamics and instruments) helped lead into the Baroque.

4) False — polyphonic music grew in prominence during the Renaissance; monophony was more characteristic of earlier medieval music.