Chapter 7 Renaissance Flashcards
What invention changed music and was revolutionary as a whole in the Age of the Renaissance?
Music printing using oil was created- copies of manuscripts could now be made without being copied by hand.
What two kinds of tuning was invented during this era?
Pythagorean intonation- all fourths and fifths were perfectly tuned. Thirds and sixths were out of tune for the ear.
Just intonation- thirds and sixths were perfectly tuned. The third, fourth and fifth will be out of tune, and notes outside the diatonic scale keeping notes pure became more difficult and notes such as G# and Ab became two different notes.
What is humanism?
“studia humanitatis” The strongest intellectual movement of the Renaissance- the study of humanities, things pertaining to human knowledge.
Who were chapels?
Groups of salaried musicians and clerics that were associated with a ruler rather than a building.
Served as performers. composers, and scribes, furnishing music for church services
What is imitative counterpoint?
When voices imitate or echo a phrase in another voice, usually at a different pitch level such as a fifth, fourth, or octave away.
What is homophony?
When voices all move together in essentially the same rhythm, the lower parts accompanying the cantus with consonant sonorities.
What is mean-tone temperament?
It is a technique keyboard players used in which pitches were adjusted to make most or all intervals usable without adding new keys. In this tuning- the fifths are tuned so small so that the major third could sound well.
The following theorist incorporated Greek thought in his treatises and stimulated new thought on music through his discussion of modes, tuning, consonance and dissonance, the relationship between music and words, and the scope of the tonal system:
Franchino Gaffurio
In the following treatise, theorist Heinrich Glareanus introduced the Aeolian, Hypoaeolian, Ionaian, and Hypoionaian modes to the traditional eight modes:
Dodekachordon
The synthesis of compositional elements from English, French, and Italian musical traditions led to this fifteenth-century compositional style:
international style
One of the earliest theorists to observe that major and minor thirds could be considered consonances was:
Walter Odington
The further development and perfection of printing music using moveable type in Europe is credited to:
Johann Gutenberg
The following music theorist proposed a tuning system that produced perfectly-tuned thirds and sixths:
Bartoleme Ramis de Pareia
The first collection of polyphonic music printed entirely from moveable type was Ottaviano Petrucci’s:
Harmonice musices odhecaton
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