MUSIC Direction: Identify the following periods of music based on their performance practices Chere your answered the toow MEDIEVAL RENAISSANCE BAROQUE 1. Sacred music was often accompanied by instruments and its rhythmic character was marked but the sung prayers were often unaccompanied 2. Churches and aristocratic courts hired musicians as composers, performers and teachers. 3. Common practice tonality. (harmony, rhythm and duration) 4. Composers experimented with finding a fuller sound for each instrumental part (orchestra). 5. Dissemination of chansons, motets and masses of polyphonic practices into the fluid style. 6. Travelling performers in Western Europe sang, did tricks and danced to earn their living. 7. Secular music absorbed techniques from sacred music and vice versa. 8. Composers found ways to make vocal music more expressive of texts they were setting. 9. Instrumental, vocal and combined performance both on sacred and secular music. 10. Invention on music printing helped in the concept improvisation within the vernacular texts.
