Chapter 9

Question 1

Characteristics of Josquin’s music

Answer 1

• clear phrasing and form
• fluid melodies
• imitation
• homophony
• declamation of text

Question 2

Did Josquin use form fixes or strophic texts/poems

Answer 2

Strophic texts/poems

Question 3

Faulte d’argent

Answer 3

• 5 voices
• monophonic
• about having no money
• melody us passed around
• repeats phrases of text, syllabic with some melismas

Question 4

Mille regrets

Answer 4

• 4 voices
• composed for Emporer Charles 5
• homophony/imitation
• keeps changing combinations of 2/3/4 voices

Question 5

Ave maria

Answer 5

Motet

• addressed to the virgin mary
• music is made to fit the words
• cadence ends on c
• texture is always changing
• text is declaimed, counterpoint

Question 6

Missa l’homme armé super voces musicales

Answer 6

Transposed the tune l’homme armé to successive degrees of the scale

Question 7

Missa hercules duc ferrariae

Answer 7

• honour ercole 1, duke of ferrara

- cantus firmus, each vowel = solmization symbol

Question 8

paraphrase mass

Answer 8

Polyphonic mass in which each movement is based on the same monophonic melody, normally a chant, which is paraphrased in most or all voices rather than being used as a cantus firmus in one voice.

Question 9

text depiction

Answer 9

Using musical gestures to reinforce or suggest images in a text, such as rising on the word “ascend.”

Question 10

text expression

Answer 10

Conveying or suggesting through musical means the emotions expressed in a text.

Question 11

Are protestant or Catholic Churches more fancy?

Answer 11

Catholic