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MEMT 231: Renaissance and Baroque

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MEMT 230 Renaissance/Baroque (please click this button)

Read the information found in Renaissance Choral Music. Then answer the following questions:

1. Name six Renaissance sacred music forms:

2. Name three Renaissance secular music forms:

3. What's the primary difference between a motet and a madrigal?

4. Briefly discuss major stylistic characteristics of Renaissance choral music. Would Renaissance choral music be good music (in terms of sound, vocal demands/vocal health, pedagogy) to teach your school choirs? Why or why not? Would you answer this question in a different way if your choir was of older adult clients in a nursing home setting? Why, why not?:

Read the information found in Baroque Choral Music. Then answer the following questions:

5. Name three newly emerging choral forms in the Baroque period:

6. What are terraced dynamics?

7. Characterize the ideal sound you would want to achieve in most Renaissance and early Baroque choral music with your choir. Then list two rehearsal techniques/strategies/vocalises that you think would help your school choir attain that ideal, explaining why.

8. Mr. Robinson wants to teach and perform the five part (SSATB) Thomas Morley madrigal "Now Is the Month of Maying" with his middle school choral group. He has 29 singers in the group, 18 sopranos, 9 altos, two changing voice tenor/cambiatas. He has decided to use instruments to play some of the vocal parts either alone or to reinforce voices. In principle, is what Mr. Robinson proposes in keeping with Renaissance performance practice? Is it a good approach to take with his choir? Why or Why not?

9. Using Google or a search engine of your choice, search "Renaissance music," and explore two of the obtained web sites. In the text box below, list the url of each site and relate one thing you learned from each.

10. Using Google or a search engine of your choice, search "Baroque music," and explore two of the obtained web sites. In the text box below, list the url of each site and relate one thing you learned from each.