Chapter 6: The end of the renaissance Flashcards
1520-1600 saw the rise of _______ in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England
Secular repertories
What became a compositional focus in the 16th century?
Instrumental music
Why did musical printing expand?
It brought in new customers beyond courts
there was a demand for less complex music
the ______ disappeared by early 16th century
Rondeau
What were the new approaches to setting vernacular texts?
The parisian chanson in France and the madrigal in Italy
CD3/4 - Who was it written by, title, genre
By Sermisy, As long as I live. Parisian Chanson
SA I/45
How many voices did the italian madrigal have? and what kind of texts were they?
Three or more voices singing secular texts
Madrigals were through-composed. What does this mean?
Each line of text was set to essentially new music
Who was Pietry Bembo?
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
Where were madrigals performed?
many settings, from banquets to private homes
What is a characteristic of the italian madrigal?
Explicit word paintin
What were some characteristics of the text of an italian madrigal
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
Who were some famous madrigal composers
De Monte Willaert De Rore De Lassus Andrea Gabrieli
What is the Lied and Tenorlied
They were the most prominent varieties of secular song in Germany. “song” and “tenor song”
Who were the “meistersinger” guilds
They were tradesmen and craftsmen who formed societies and school throughout Germany to foster the cultivation of music, poetry and singing.
Villancico
The principle genre of Spanish song
What was the equivalent to the poetic form of the villancico
The french virelai (AbbaA)
How was the italian madrigal transplanted to England
Through manuscripts and then a series of publications
Who was Thomas Morley and what did he complain about
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
What is an antecedent
A phrase that moves from tonic to dominant (I-V)
What is a consequent phrase
A phrase that moves from the dominant to the tonic
What is a reprise
a large section that is to be repeated
what do two reprises together constitute?
a binary form
What does binary form represent
one fo the earliest instances of syntactic form
What is syntactic form
Where a central idea is presented and varied over the course of an entire movement, in contrast to paractactic form
what is paratactic form
each new section represents a new idea
What is mannerism
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.
