arts

Question 1

What was the most popular art form at the time ?

Answer 1

drama

Question 2

What church festival were drama plays sometimes presented with ?

Answer 2

church-ale festivals

Question 3

Give an example of a play presented with a church ale festival

Answer 3

In Bishop’s Stortford Hertfordshire

Question 4

What were the most famous drama plays ?

Answer 4

the mystery plays performed at the feasts of corpus christi by the guilds of towns and cities.

Question 5

Give 4 example of towns and cities that were notorious for preforming mystery plays at the feasts of corpus christi at their guilds.

Answer 5

1) York

2) Lincholn

3) Wakefield

4) coventry

Question 6

What kind of music would entertain the crowds on saints’ days ?

Answer 6

Local bagpipe and wind groups

Question 7

What kind of music would be sung in Cathedrals ?

Answer 7

Great choral pieces

Question 8

How did Great choral pieces sung in cathedrals go through the beginnings of a renaissance ?

Answer 8

great choral pieces & single line chants gave way to polyphonic choral music.

Question 9

What was polyphonic choral music ?

Answer 9

Where different parts of the choir sang independent melodic lines

Question 10

Where would polyphonic choral music be heard ?

Answer 10

In Cathedrals and other major churches .

Question 11

What is the most important surviving source of music ?

Answer 11

the Eton Choirbook

Question 12

When was Eton Choirbook written ?

Answer 12

around 1505

Question 13

How many musical compositions does the Eton Choirbook have ?

Answer 13

93 separate musical compositions

Question 14

Which 2 people were the most important composers of the Eton Choirbook ?

Answer 14

1) Thomas Browne

2) Robert Fayrfax

Question 15

Explain how Thomas Browne had very close links to the political establishment.

Answer 15

Thomas Browne was employed in the household of the Earl of Oxford

Question 16

Explain how Robert Fayrfax had very close links to the political establishment.

Answer 16

He benefited regularly from the patronage of Lady Margaret Beaufort as well as that of the King.

Question 17

There was a massive amount of Building and rebuilding of _______ churches that occured at this time.

Answer 17

Parish

Question 18

What kind of Style Were the vast number of churches built in at the time of Henry VII indicating the scale of investment which took place.

Answer 18

Gothic Perpendicular style

Question 19

Give 2 examples of Parish churches that underwent the Gothic perpendicular style change

Answer 19

1) Saint Mary Radcliffe in Bristol

2) The major wool churches of East Anglia. E.g Lavenham

Question 20

In 1502, what architectural style did Henry VII approve for the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey ?

Answer 20

Gothic Perpendicular

Question 21

What culture was the new industry of printing concerned with at the time of Henry VII

Answer 21

traditional medieval culture

Question 22

Give an example of a famous printer at the time

Answer 22

William Caxton

Question 23

When did William Caxton establish his own Printing press ?

Answer 23

1478

Question 24

Give 3 examples of traditional medieval works that William Caxton printed on his printing press.

Answer 24

1) Chaucer’s Canterbury tales

2) chivalric romances

3) adaptations of Saints’ lives

Question 25

When did tastes begin to change in terms of printing works away from traditional medieval works ?

Answer 25

1509 (End of Henry's reign)

Question 26

Why did tastes begin to change in terms of printing works away from traditional medieval works.

Answer 26

This is because humanist influences had reached England, particularly from Italy

Question 27

Which humanist scholar who was a foreigner became more fashionable in 1509 ?

Answer 27

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 28

Which 2 humanist scholars who were Englishmen became more fashionable in 1509 ?

Answer 28

1) Thomas More 2) John Colet

Question 29

What happened to the popularity of William Caxton's tradition medieval printed works after 1509 ?

Answer 29

Became unfashionable as the humanist influence took over