A Ballett is a style of secular vocal music from the Renaissance period. The words are in ____, and the form is ____. There is no instrumental accompaniment. The word used to describe unaccompanied voices is ____. The tonality of a Ballett, as with everything in the Renaissance era, is ____. A unique characteristic within a Ballett is a refrain of ____. A ____ is a piece of Sacred Vocal Music from the Renaissance period that is in ____ but it is not from a ____. It is unaccompanied, and is sung by a ____ choir. Sometimes composers wrote deliberate imitation into these songs to achieve a stereo type of effect between the two halves of the choir. This method of composition is called ____. The texture of a Motet in the Renaissance period is ____. The English word for Aria is ____. This is usually sung by a soloist, occasionally a duet. It is not a Madrigal or a Ballett. It is normally accompanied by a small early guitar instrument which is called a ____ An instrumental ensemble in the Renaissance era is called a ____. There are two Renaissance dances. If the time signature is 2/4 then the dance is called a ____. If the dance is in 3/4 then it is called a ____. A highly contrapuntal piece of instrumental music written in the Baroque era is called a ____. It is based on one main melody. The first voice enters by playing this melody, which we call the ____. A second voice then repeats the subject but we now call it an ____. As the second voice plays this repetition of the theme, the first voice then plays against it in something called the ____. The whole piece builds up towards a climax, with the voices taking it in turns to play the answer or the countersubject. Sometimes the main melody enters in several voices, only it doesn't get to finish before another voice starts it. We call this type of interruptive repetition ____ A prominent feature of Baroque instrumental music was the presence of a keyboard and bass instrument playing a ____. This was present in most Baroque music. The main keyboard instrument used in the Baroque era was the ____. Although sometimes in church settings this was replaced by the ____. One of the Sacred Vocal styles in the Baroque era was a German hymn tune, which is called a ____. This style of music was mostly ____ in texture. This is not typical of the Baroque style, which generally preferred ____ music. This music was sung by a choir and the lyrics were in ____. The end of a phrase was often made clear by the harmonic technique of ____. This is where a deliberate ____ is held over the second last chord of the phrase.

Renaissance & Baroque Music - Advanced Higher

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