True or False questions about Josquin, Palestrina and the Renaissance?

Question

Palestrina's patrons included several popes.


Josquin spent his entire productive career in northern Europe.


Renaissance music reflected to a new taste for duple meter.

Answer 1

True: Palestrina's patrons included several popes.

http://www.grovemusic.com.libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/shared/views/article.html?section=music.20749.6

False: Josquin spent his entire productive career in northern Europe.

http://www.grovemusic.com.libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/shared/views/article.html?from=search&session_search_id=618816959&hitnum=1§ion=music.14497


False: Renaissance music reflected to a new taste for duple meter. (they don't have meter! look at this photo of the original score! http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/images/music15.jpg )


http://www.grovemusic.com.libproxy.cc.stonybrook.edu/shared/views/article.html?section=music.23192.4#music.23192.4

Answer 2

true

false - Josquin was in Italy around the turn of the 16th century, I believe

true, I guess. During the Renaissance, it's true that composers began to use duple/simple/imperfect divisions of the beat more than they had before. I'm not ready to say that equates to duple meter...since 6/8 is a duple meter (with a triple beat division)

Answer 3

True
False
False/True - the renaissance never produced the kind of meter organization that we think of. Symbols like neumes and color coded scores usually helped the performer REMEMBER a specific tempo, rhythm or meter. Most rhythmic organization was handed down by ear or insinuated in the script. It is true that in the renaissance, most musicians worked in what we would consider a triple meter.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestrina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_music