CLASS: Oct 1, 2018

Question 1

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Why was Burgundy so important?

Answer 1

• Dukes of Burgundy sent out talent scouts to bring talent to their courts
• They took a chapel with them, tour while the Dukes were away on business
• What did the Dukes need to do all that? Money.
  
  • Dukes could spend their money on anything. These Dukes spent their money on music.

Question 2

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Why do we know the Dukes of Burgundy admired the English sound?

Which composer did they cite?

Answer 2

Johannes Tinctoris, 1476 and Martin LeFranc wrote about it.

Dunstable

Question 3

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Franco-Flemish composers imitated.

Who did they cite.

Answer 3

“Tapissier, Carmen, Cesaris, not long ago sang so well that they astonished all Paris and all who came to hear them. But never did they discant such finely wrought melody- so I was told by those who heard them- as

G. Du Fay and Binchois.

Question 4

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

What is a Mass Ordinary Cycle?

Answer 4

• It was THE genre to write in.
• 5 movements composed by one person
  
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria
  • Credo
  • Sanctus
  • Angus Dei

Question 5

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Who was the first to write a Mass Ordinary Cycle?

Answer 5

Mauchet

Question 6

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

What is a Cantus Firmus Mass?

How does it differ from a Mass Ordinary Cycle

Answer 6

Same melody in the tenor voice. Starts off as a chant melody.

Question 7

Why is this area important?

Answer 7

• Dukes of Burgundy (most prominent, spending money on music)
• That’s where the money was
• Composers are born all over, go to Italy because that’s where the music schools are, then move back north because that’s where all the jobs are. (We see this with Josquin. Similar to getting a job in Chicago or New York.)

Question 8

What two composers are associated with developing the English sound on the continent

Answer 8

• Du Fay
• Binchois

Question 9

They were separated from each other enough to be considered separate generations, but close enough to ____ the works of each other.

Answer 9

know

Question 10

Answer 10

Question 11

LISTEN FOR MIDDLE VOICE

1. How he manipulates the melody in the TENOR voice
2. The counterpoint in these polyphonic mass movements are dense and hard to follow
3. Mensuration signs resemble meter but are not meter
   
   1. You don’t have a downbeat. That’s why its hard to follow

Answer 11

Question 12

LISTEN

• Speeds up the melody as we go along

Answer 12

Include the other pages somehow?

Question 13

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