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Renaissance Analysis and Discovery Assignments

Below, you will find assignments designed to help you know, understand, and analyze content covered in the Renaissance Unit. Please follow teacher directions on how to complete these assignments.

Assignment One: An Overview of the Characteristics of Renaissance Art and the Masters How much do you remember about Renaissance Art? Use your notes and available books to complete the charts provided on the sheet entitled “Renaissance Art Characteristics and the Masters.”

Assignment Two: Become a Renaissance MasterWhat does it feel like to be a Renaissance master? Create your own Renaissance masterpiece while adhering to the guidelines found in the assignment entitled, “Become a Renaissance Master!”

Assignment Three: What are the characteristics of Renaissance dance?What makes a social dance from the Renaissance? Use your notes and the webpage found at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html to complete the assignment entitled What are the characteristics of Renaissance dance? to analyze the essential characteristics of Renaissance dance.

Assignment Four: Can you shake your Renaissance groove thing?If you were to shake it like a Renaissance man, what dance steps would you perform? Complete the assignment entitled Can you shake your Renaissance groove thing? to show that you understand the essential concepts of Renaissance dance.

Assignment Five: What are the essential components of Renaissance music?Using your notes and available books, complete the chart found on assignment two entitled What are the essential characteristics of Renaissance music? by cutting out the definitions found in the bottom chart. In other words, cut out the second chart and glue the definitions to the terms found in chart one.

Assignment Six: What makes someone a master of Renaissance music?For this assignment, you must research one of the following topics: motet, madrigal, mass, Des Pres, or Palestrina and you need to evaluate their importance to Renaissance music by creating a product.

Assignment Seven: What are the essential characteristics of Renaissance theater? Use your notes and available books to complete the questions found with this assignment.

Assignment Eight: Could you be a director of a Commedia dell’arte production? Use your notes and available books to design your own Commedia dell’arte production!

Assignment Nine: What are the defining characteristics of Renaissance Architecture? Read the section on Renaissance Architecture in the Annotated Arch and answer the corresponding questions.

Assignment Ten: Now is your chance to build the largest dome of the Renaissance! (out of paper) In this assignment you will need access to the internet, a color printer, and plenty of time and patience!

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Assignment One: Renaissance Art Characteristics and the Masters. For this assignment, you must complete both charts below.

Fill out this chart about the seven characteristics of Renaissance art using your notes.

Characteristic Define the characteristic. Name a piece of work that’s uses this characteristic.

Realism and Expression

Classicism

Artist as personalities/ celebrities

Light and shadowing/ softening the edges

Geometrical arrangement of figures

Perspective

Emphasis on Individualism

Identify the seven characteristics of Renaissance art on the image below.

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Fill out this chart about the Masters of Renaissance art using your notes and available books.

Artist Name a piece of work by this artist

What characteristics of Renaissance Art are being used in this piece of work?

What is the controversial / fun fact about this piece of work?

What makes this artist a Renaissance man?

Leonardo Da Vinci

Michelangelo

Raphael

Identify the artist of the work seen here. Write two sentences that defend your answer in the space below.

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Assignment Two: Become a Renaissance Master!

La Primavera by Botticelli

Become Michelangelo by creating your own Renaissance painting using the seven characteristics of Renaissance art. Your image can utilize whichever medium you choose, but it must fill an entire piece of large white paper. In addition, you must choose a subject matter appropriate for the Renaissance. Please see your notes for help with selecting a subject matter.

When you have completed your masterpiece, you will also need to write two paragraphs explaining your master piece. The paragraphs need to include the characteristics you used in your piece, explain how the piece would be part of the Renaissance, use complete sentences, and correct grammar.

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Assignment Three: What are the characteristics of Renaissance dance?Go to the following website (or use the hard copy) to answer the questions below: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/diessay2.html

1) What did Renaissance dance manuals discuss in regards to proper characteristics of Renaissance dance?

2) How did the clothing influence the way people danced?

3) What are some steps found in Renaissance dancing?

4) What were the positions of the arms?

5) Identify and describe the two categories of Renaissance dance.

6) What was the name of Arbeau’s dance manual? Why was Arbeau’s manual significant to France?

7) What is the only source for the circle dances? How many people danced these dances?

8) What was the origin of the circle dances mentioned above?

9) Why was it important for a male to know how to perform the Galliard?

10) Why are sixteenth century Italian manuals noteworthy?

11) What was the first Italian dance manual?

12) How were Cesare Negri’s manual different from Fabritio Caroso’s manual?

Going Further…Select one of the clips listed on the website above. Watch this clip and complete the following questions: 1) Name the clip you watched.

2) How does this dance show political and social values of the Renaissance? Note: For this answer to receive credit, you must cite specific dance steps and clearly explain how they represent the values of the Renaissance.

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Assignment Four: Can you shake your Renaissance groove thing?

For this assignment, you must create a Renaissance dance. Your dance must include the following to receive all of your points:

1) All proper steps must be included (bows, etc.). This information is in your notes.2) Your dance must illustrate the proper characteristics of Renaissance dance

A. What is the appropriate amount of physical contact?B. What body part gets the emphasis in this dance?

3) Movement across the floor must be appropriate for this style of dance.

Assignment Five: What are the essential characteristics of Renaissance music?

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For this assignment, you must complete the chart below using your notes, available books, and your Definition Cut Out Chart (found below- find the scissors!). Glue those definitions to the terms and individuals found below on the chart below.

Glue on the chart below:

Texture Melody Rhythm Dynamics

Timbre/Tone Color Motet Madrigal Mass

Word Painting Protestant Reformation Council of Trent Counter Reformation

Des Prez Form of Ava Maria Palestrina Form of Kyrie

Cut this chart out and paste the correct definition to the word in the chart above.

Texture Melody Rhythm Dynamics

Form of this song is mass.

The Catholic church’s reaction to Martin

Luther.

Matching melodies to the emotion of the

phrase

This individual preferred composing

motets to masses.

Secular acapella song for 3-6 voices

This song’s form is a motet.

Simplified polyphony to keep music in church ceremonies.

Sacred or secular composition of 4-6

voices

Compositions set to the mass ceremony

Event started by Martin Luther’s 95 thesis

against the Catholic church.

A meeting of Catholic leaders to reform the

corruption in the church.

Voice, strings, winds, brass compose this

term.

Assignment Six: What makes someone a master of Renaissance music?

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For this assignment, you must research one of the following topics: motet, madrigal, mass, Des Pres, or Palestrina and you need to evaluate their importance to Renaissance music by answering the following questions:

(Complete the following questions for the individuals)

1) Where was this individual born?2) How was he trained?3) What is his work history?4) What form of music did this composer prefer?5) What was his most important composition? In addition, what was his important contribution

to music?6) Why or how is this individual still important and relevant today’s music?

(Complete the following questions for the forms)

1) When and where did this form develop?2) What composers are known for composing this form?3) Why is this form important to Renaissance music? What is its function in society?4) What is a famous example of this form? Where and when was it created and performed?5) What is this form still important and relevant to today’s music?

This information needs to be presented in an accurate, neat, and organized manor in one of the following mediums:

- Posterboard- Movie Maker- PowerPoint presentation- Prezzi Presentation- Interactive mobile

Please see you teacher for instructions on how to complete the projects above when you have made your selection.

Assignment Six: What are the essential characteristics of the Commedia Dell’arte?

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Use your notes and available books to complete the assignment below.

1) Identify the following Commedia dell’Arte stock characters. Fill in any missing characteristics.

-Spaniard - Servant -maidservant to the lovers

-_____________________________ -_________________________ -lover of ____________________

-_____________________________ -_________________________ clothing -____________________________

2) How do actors in Commedia Dell’Arte perform their dialogue?

3) Draw a rough sketch of a traditional Elizabethan theatre and label the parts (the stage, the open area, who sits where, why there is no roof, etc.)

4) Describe a typical scene from a play written by William Shakespeare. - What might this scene include? (think characteristics of Shakespeare’s plays)- How might this scene be performed? (think about the reaction of the audience)

Assignment Eight: Could you be a director of a Commedia dell’arte production?

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Use your notes and available books to complete the assignment below.

Design your own original plot structure of a Commedia dell’Arte performance. Include the seven parts of the plot structure as well as the stock characters and their roles.

Arlecchino Brighella Colombina Dottore Capitano Pantalone Pedrolino

Exposition:

Conflict:

Rising Action:

Climax:

Falling Action:

Denouement:

Conclusion:

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Assignment Nine: What are the defining characteristics of Renaissance Architecture? Read the section on Renaissance Architecture in the Annotated Arch, pages 54-67, and answer the following questions.

1. In the introductory paragraph the last sentence reads, “Throughout history, architecture oscillates between mini and maxi.” What do you think this means?

2. Renaissance architecture stressed what four things?

3. From what two cultures did these four things originate?

4. Name two of the founding fathers of Renaissance architecture and one famous building they created.

5. Name two other Renaissance discoveries, from page 56, outside the art world. How does this connect with the idea of humanism?

6. Who is considered the father of Renaissance architecture? What is he famous for building?

7. Why was the dome so difficult to build and what solution was given involving children?

8. What was the final solution Brunelleschi developed for constructing the dome?

9. After 1500, what city replaced Florence as the center of architectural innovation? (pg. 61)

10. Bramante’s work, Tempietto, marks the site of what biblical figure’s crucifixion?

11. The Tempietto became a model for what later celebrated domes? Name two.

12. In the last six years of his life Raphael took up architecture. Name the three types of buildings he designed before his death.

13. For Michelangelo, mannerism was a protest against what previous Renaissance architectural style?

14. At what age did Michelangelo take up architecture?

15. Who was the most widely copied architect of all time?

Assignment Ten: Now is your chance to build the largest dome of the Renaissance! (out of paper) In this assignment you will need access to the internet, a color printer, and plenty of time and patience! Go to the following website to get started.http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3154/florence-cathedral/index.html

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