Renaissance Period Music Escape Room (Music Activity: Renaissance Music Era)

This Escape Room is an all-in-one lesson to teach your students about the Renaissance Period of Music History in a fun and engaging way. Simply share the google form link with students and they are ready to go! Students will search for answers on the internet as they learn about the topics below.

5 puzzles cover the topics of:

1. Madrigal

2. Composer Josquin des Prez

3. Mass

4. Notation

5. Variety of Form

2 challenges (more involved with multiple questions and a ‘code’) cover the topics of:

1. William Byrd (his life and music)

2. About the Renaissance

Other musical terms or facts related to the Renaissance that are mentioned in the escape room include through-composed, acapella, polyphonic, Gregorian chant, mensural notation, eighth note, half note, villancico, chanson, lied, frottola, harpsicord, sackbut, Maddalena Casulana, chanson, Medici, humanism.

Save with the Musical Time Periods Bundle HERE.

The entire activity is within a Google form (will be delivered by TPT to your Google Drive) and the students will need internet access for research and YouTube access for the videos. (If YouTube is not available, you could provide answers to any questions that require YouTube – most do not.) Scrap paper or a digital notepad can be helpful for deciphering the challenges. Or, if preferred, printable versions of the challenges are included in the folder as well.

This is a shorter escape room than some of the other 'full' escape rooms. With 5 puzzles & 2 challenges (instead of 7/3), completion time should be 20-40 minutes depending on age, number of students in a team and the amount of clues (if any) that the teacher might give. A 9th grader might complete within 20 minutes working independently. A group of three 6th graders might take 40 minutes. This activity is also perfect for a truly beneficial lesson with a substitute teacher and can work for band, choir, orchestra or general music.

If you are not familiar with Google Forms, please read the DIRECTIONS & HELPFUL TIPS before opening the form so you will know how to use the resource. The Directions & Helpful Tips should be in the google folder that TPT shares with you after purchase.

✅ For a peek inside the resource, click the green PREVIEW button above.

***This is a Google App Resource and TPT will add a copy of this resource directly to your Drive. You must have a Google Account in order to access this resource. However, students do not need to have any kind of google drive, google mail etc. ANYONE can use the resource, only the teacher must have a Google Drive. Band Directors Talk Shop plans to make many more Google resources over the next year, so if you don't have a google account, you might sign up for a free account here.***

Want a ‘hands-on’ escape room that works best with in-person students? Check out our other 5 STAR options:

Escape Room 1 (beginner theory)

Escape Room 2 (advanced theory)

Browse all of our Music History Escape Rooms HERE.

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iPad users - Troubleshooting with iPad users.

Usually these escape rooms will work just fine on iPads. If you run into trouble:

- Try using Safari as a browser instead of Chrome/Firefox

- Be sure students are using the internet, not the Google Form APP.

- Partner students with iPads with other students who have laptops and have them enter the answers into the laptop.

We don't anticipate problems, but these tips may help if there is an issue.