CLASS: Oct 19, 2018 - COMPLETE Flashcards
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How does the development of the madrigal relate to Renaissance humanism?
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- More intense expression
- Actual tangible love stories. Not Courtly love from the Middle Ages.
- Text Painting. Madrigalisms.
2
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What is courtly love? Give an analogy.
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You are in love with a Pop star that you are never going to meet.
Middle Ages
3
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Why are Francesco Petrarch and Pietro Bembo important?
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- Composers set texts related to them
- Petrarch is contemporary with Machaut, late middle ages
- Bembo compiled and published Petrarch’s work. Brought them to light.
4
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What is a madrigalism? Give an example.
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- Text-painting
- Word painting
- Tone Painting
Examples:
- The music imitates the emotion you are feeling at the time
- Fast cheery notes = happy
- Descending line = sad
5
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How does the use of madrigalisms change from generation to generation?
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- It gets easier to hear the madrigalisms, much more on the surface
- The music gets HARDER to sing.
- Dissonance
- Dissonance to dissonance without resolution
- Consonance sticks out like a sore thumb
- Chromaticism
- Lots of it
- Dissonance
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8
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concerto delle donne
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- Wealthy Italian Courts
- Performers: Female singers
- Well trained, well rehearsed
9
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Musica Transalpina
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- English borrowed Italian music and translated into English
- Music from northern Italy
- William Byrd and Thomas Talles had a monopoly on music printing
- This volume credits the Italian composers
- Music by Italians, especially Luca Marenzio, third generation madrigalist
10
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How is music financed in 16-17th century?
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- Dedications
- Flowery language
11
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Political Implications: Thomas Morley’s Dedication of The Triumphes of Oriana (1601) to the Earle of Nottingham
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- How political contexts shifts our understanding of music
- Contains genuine English madrigals, not ripped off Italian works
- Tag at the end of the madrigal “long live”
- Confusion of the photo
- Coupe
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Political
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