Chapter 10

Question 1

16th century song in Germany

Answer 1

Lied

Question 2

16th century song in France

Answer 2

Chanson

Question 3

16th century song in Spain

Answer 3

villancico

Question 4

16th century song in Italy

Answer 4

frottola and MADRIGAL

Question 5

16th century song in England

Answer 5

lute song

Question 6

what was the most important technological advance in the 16th century

Answer 6

the printing press

Question 7

Why was the printing press an important invention?

Answer 7

• more people could buy it, more demand

- musicians made more money

Question 8

Characteristics of villancico

Answer 8

• short
• strophic, syllabic and homophonic
• peasant music for rich people
• has refrain
• top voice usually has the melody

Question 9

Juan del Encina

Answer 9

Spanish playwright who composed villancicos, interested in pastoral themes from greek/roman lit.

Question 10

Oy comamos y bebamos

Answer 10

• villancico, very lively
• Encina composed
• in a play about mardi gras

Question 11

characteristics of frottola

Answer 11

• fake peasant song for rich people
• syllabic, strophic, homophonic, melody in upper voice
• root position triads

Question 12

Characteristics of madrigal

Answer 12

• music enriches the meaning of the words
• any number of lines that are 7 or 11 syllables
• no refrains

Question 13

Through composition

Answer 13

no repetition or refrain, new music for every line of poetry

Question 14

what were fifth and sixth voices called in mid 16th cen.

Answer 14

quintus and sextus

Question 15

bianco e dolce cigno

Answer 15

• jaques arcadelt
• about swans singing while dying or maybe sex
• easy to sing bc its mostly quarter notes
• madrigal
• text painting: #s for happy, b’s for sad

Question 16

What did Cardinal Bembo say?

Answer 16

He encouraged people to write in the style of Petrarch (which was written in Tuscan)

Question 17

De le belle Contrade

Answer 17

• Cipriano de Rore
• chromaticism
• about 2 lovers who spend the night together, then have to leave each other and the rising planet venus
• word painting: will change the structure of the poetry that he uses for better interpretation

Question 18

lo parto

Answer 18

Carlo Gesualdo

• not for amateurs
• for rich people
• about 2 angsty lovers leaving each other
• lots of word painting

Question 19

villanella

Answer 19

• strophic
• homophonic
• italian
• purposely rustic

Question 20

Who was Pierre Attaingnant?

Answer 20

first French music printer

Question 21

Tant que vivray

Answer 21

• love poem
• chanson
• Claudin de Sermisy
• simple melody, there is different text for the same music, so word painting can’t happen

Question 22

Martin memoir son pourceau

Answer 22

• marot
• they fuck and get dragged away by a pig
• five line stanzas and symmetrical rhyme scheme
• plagal cadence and suspensions
• narrative or programmatic chanson

Question 23

La nuict froide et sombre

Answer 23

• de lasso
• madrigal like chanson
• minor for night, major for day
• nature poetry

Question 24

musique mesurée

Answer 24

chansons that give stressed syllables longer notes than unstressed syllables

Question 25

revecy venir du printans

Answer 25

• Claude le jeune
• musique mesurée
• less for selling, more to demonstrate how music can bring bring ancient greek poetry

Question 26

meistersingers

Answer 26

• German amateur singers who formed guilds

Question 27

Innsburck, ich muss dich lassen

Answer 27

• Hienrich Isaac
• homophonic texture
• strophic, clear text
• in German
• about saying goodbye to a city

Question 28

What was Orlando di Lasso really good at?

Answer 28

using the printing press to put his music out