Chapter 10

Question 1

Arcadelt

Answer 1

1505-1568 Madrigal composer. Northerner (Franco-Flemish).

Question 2

William Byrd

Answer 2

1540-1623 a primary composer of Anglican music. master of the consort song. Anglican and Catholic service music.

Question 3

chansons

Answer 3

basically just means song.

(New French Chanson)
a. subject/text: playful, amorous, sometimes serious
b. text setting: syllabic
c. meter/rhythm: often duple
d. texture: homophonic with melody in highest voice, occasional imitation
e. structure: often strophic (which can preclude text painting!) or short sections in simple pattern (e.g. aabc)

Question 4

Gesualdo

Answer 4

1566 - 1613, prince of Venosa. Italian madrigal composer. murderer and aristocrat.

Question 4

Dowland

Answer 4

1563-1626 leading composer of lute songs. “Flow my tears”.

Question 5

frottola

Answer 5

new secular genre as a result of Franco-Flemish style encountering native traditions in ITALY, france and spain. most important precursor to madrigal.

strophic with refrains
four-part homophonic song
melody in upper voice
syllabic text setting
simple harmonies
suited to amateurs

Question 6

Lassus

Answer 6

1532-1594 one of the most cosmopolitan figures in the history of music. wrote madrigals while in italy. collections published. prolific.

Question 7

lauda

Answer 7

importand secular genre in italy when franco-flemish composers arrived in the early 1500s. less important than Frottola.

strophic with refrains
four-part homophonic song
melody in upper voice
syllabic text setting
simple harmonies
suited to amateurs

Question 8

lute

Answer 8

renaissance string instrument with bent neck.

Question 9

lute song

Answer 9

early 1600s prominent. a solo song with accompaniment. Dowland was a leading composer.

Personal genre, more serious literary texts, less word painting
lute accompaniments had rhythmic and melodic independence.

Question 10

lute tablature

Answer 10

lute notaton with a line for each string.

Question 11

madrigal (15th c)

Answer 11

Most important secular genre of 16th c. emphasis on enriching meaning and impact of text through musical setting. TEXT PAINTING. Italian poet and humanist Petrarch ushered in new age of the madrigal.

Musical settings of italian poetry of various types. free rhyme scheme. typically through composed. Italy became leader in european music .

Question 12

Marenzio

Answer 12

1553-1599 Italian madrigal composer. lots of madrigalisms

Question 13

Monteverdi

Answer 13

1567-1643 italian madrigal composer.

Question 14

Morley

Answer 14

1557-1602 English madrigal composer. earliest and most prolific english madrigal composer. compiled The triumphes of oriana, book of english madrigals. (oriana could be queen elizabeth, recently thought to maybe be anne of denmark)

Question 15

Petrarch

Answer 15

1304-1374. Celebrated italian poet and humanist of early Renaissance. Development of 16th c madrigal was linked to currents in Italian poetry. Petrarchan sonnet.

Question 16

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 16

Petrarchan sonnet: 14-line poem common, divided into 8-line stanza (ABBAABBA) and 6-line stanza (CDCDCD or CDECDE)
Conceit: elaborate and surprising comparison between two dissimilar things
Wanted words to “sound” like what they mean

Question 17

Rore

Answer 17

1516-1565 Northerner madrigal composer. Flemish by birth, worked in Italy.

Question 18

text painting

Answer 18

composing music that reflects the text meaning. ex text describes someone running down a hill, 8th notes descending.

Question 19

Triumphes of Oriana

Answer 19

The triumphes of oriana, book of english madrigals. (oriana could be queen elizabeth, recently thought to maybe be anne of denmark). compiled by Morley

Question 20

villancico

Answer 20

most important form of secular polyphonic song in Renaissance spain.

Question 21

Weelkes

Answer 21

As Vesta Was. English madrigal composer. “ascending” rising scales, “Descending” falling scales.