arts Flashcards
What was the most popular art form at the time ?
drama
What church festival were drama plays sometimes presented with ?
church-ale festivals
Give an example of a play presented with a church ale festival
In Bishop’s Stortford Hertfordshire
What were the most famous drama plays ?
the mystery plays performed at the feasts of corpus christi by the guilds of towns and cities.
Give 4 example of towns and cities that were notorious for preforming mystery plays at the feasts of corpus christi at their guilds.
1) York
2) Lincholn
3) Wakefield
4) coventry
What kind of music would entertain the crowds on saints’ days ?
Local bagpipe and wind groups
What kind of music would be sung in Cathedrals ?
Great choral pieces
How did Great choral pieces sung in cathedrals go through the beginnings of a renaissance ?
great choral pieces & single line chants gave way to polyphonic choral music.
What was polyphonic choral music ?
Where different parts of the choir sang independent melodic lines
Where would polyphonic choral music be heard ?
In Cathedrals and other major churches .
What is the most important surviving source of music ?
the Eton Choirbook
When was Eton Choirbook written ?
around 1505
How many musical compositions does the Eton Choirbook have ?
93 separate musical compositions
Which 2 people were the most important composers of the Eton Choirbook ?
1) Thomas Browne
2) Robert Fayrfax
Explain how Thomas Browne had very close links to the political establishment.
Thomas Browne was employed in the household of the Earl of Oxford
Explain how Robert Fayrfax had very close links to the political establishment.
He benefited regularly from the patronage of Lady Margaret Beaufort as well as that of the King.
There was a massive amount of Building and rebuilding of _______ churches that occured at this time.
Parish
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.
Gothic Perpendicular style
Give 2 examples of Parish churches that underwent the Gothic perpendicular style change
1) Saint Mary Radcliffe in Bristol
2) The major wool churches of East Anglia. E.g Lavenham
In 1502, what architectural style did Henry VII approve for the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey ?
Gothic Perpendicular
What culture was the new industry of printing concerned with at the time of Henry VII
traditional medieval culture
Give an example of a famous printer at the time
William Caxton
When did William Caxton establish his own Printing press ?
1478
Give 3 examples of traditional medieval works that William Caxton printed on his printing press.
1) Chaucer’s Canterbury tales
2) chivalric romances
3) adaptations of Saints’ lives
When did tastes begin to change in terms of printing works away from traditional medieval works ?
1509 (End of Henry’s reign)
Why did tastes begin to change in terms of printing works away from traditional medieval works.
This is because humanist influences had reached England, particularly from Italy
Which humanist scholar who was a foreigner became more fashionable in 1509 ?
Desiderius Erasmus
Which 2 humanist scholars who were Englishmen became more fashionable in 1509 ?
1) Thomas More
2) John Colet
What happened to the popularity of William Caxton’s tradition medieval printed works after 1509 ?
Became unfashionable as the humanist influence took over
