Chapter 6: The end of the renaissance

Question 1

1520-1600 saw the rise of _______ in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England

Answer 1

Secular repertories

Question 2

What became a compositional focus in the 16th century?

Answer 2

Instrumental music

Question 3

Why did musical printing expand?

Answer 3

It brought in new customers beyond courts

there was a demand for less complex music

Question 4

the ______ disappeared by early 16th century

Answer 4

Rondeau

Question 5

What were the new approaches to setting vernacular texts?

Answer 5

The parisian chanson in France and the madrigal in Italy

Question 6

CD3/4 - Who was it written by, title, genre

Answer 6

By Sermisy, As long as I live. Parisian Chanson

SA I/45

Question 7

How many voices did the italian madrigal have? and what kind of texts were they?

Answer 7

Three or more voices singing secular texts

Question 8

Madrigals were through-composed. What does this mean?

Answer 8

Each line of text was set to essentially new music

Question 9

Who was Pietry Bembo?

Answer 9

He championed poetry of Francesco Petrarca

Noted qualities of pleasingness, seriousness/weight

paid attention to fine details of the italian language such as: Rhythms, rhymes, and sonorities

Question 10

Where were madrigals performed?

Answer 10

many settings, from banquets to private homes

Question 11

What is a characteristic of the italian madrigal?

Answer 11

Explicit word paintin

Question 12

What were some characteristics of the text of an italian madrigal

Answer 12

There was no fixed form

Single stanza with free rhyme scheme

Lines alternated between 7 and 11 syllables

revealed striking image at end of poem

Question 13

Who were some famous madrigal composers

Answer 13

De Monte
Willaert
De Rore
De Lassus
Andrea Gabrieli

Question 14

What is the Lied and Tenorlied

Answer 14

They were the most prominent varieties of secular song in Germany. “song” and “tenor song”

Question 15

Who were the “meistersinger” guilds

Answer 15

They were tradesmen and craftsmen who formed societies and school throughout Germany to foster the cultivation of music, poetry and singing.

Question 16

Villancico

Answer 16

The principle genre of Spanish song

Question 17

What was the equivalent to the poetic form of the villancico

Answer 17

The french virelai (AbbaA)

Question 18

How was the italian madrigal transplanted to England

Answer 18

Through manuscripts and then a series of publications

Question 19

Who was Thomas Morley and what did he complain about

Answer 19

He was an english composer who complained england’s obsession with all things italian was preventing his compatriots from appreciating the work of English composers

Question 20

What is an antecedent

Answer 20

A phrase that moves from tonic to dominant (I-V)

Question 21

What is a consequent phrase

Answer 21

A phrase that moves from the dominant to the tonic

Question 22

What is a reprise

Answer 22

a large section that is to be repeated

Question 23

what do two reprises together constitute?

Answer 23

a binary form

Question 24

What does binary form represent

Answer 24

one fo the earliest instances of syntactic form

Question 25

What is syntactic form

Answer 25

Where a central idea is presented and varied over the course of an entire movement, in contrast to paractactic form

Question 26

what is paratactic form

Answer 26

each new section represents a new idea

Question 27

What is mannerism

Answer 27

A term from art history that designates a style of painting and sculpture characterized by teh use of distortion, exaggeration, and unsettling juxtaposition for dramatic effect.

In music it is characterized by distortion, extreme dissonance, unusual harmonic progressions and exaggerated word painting.