CLASS: Sep 26, 2018

Question 1

The Renaissance saw a definitive shift in harmonic taste. Which intervals can help us differentiate Renaisaance music as opposed to Medieval music?

Answer 1

3rd and 6ths

Question 2

Why did the taste for different “consonant” intervals cange in the Renaissance?

Answer 2

“Sweet sounding”.

Sounds good to the ear.

Question 3

How does musical texture shift from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance?

Answer 3

Equal Voice texture

Compared to Stratified texture in the Middle Ages

(Layers of cake. Middle Ages is like Neopolitan cake. Renaissance is like one flavor.)

Question 4

How does a composer’s attitude toward text change in the Renaissance?

Answer 4

Focus on human emotions and experiences

The composers want the AUDIENCE to understand the text and topics VS the Middle ages where only the singers konw what’s going on.

Question 5

Which medieval genres carry forth into the Renaissance?

Answer 5

• Motet
• Mass
• Madrigal
• Chanson

Question 6

A Renaissance motet is in what language?

Answer 6

Latin (Except Medieval can have French)

Question 7

A Mass is in what language?

Answer 7

Latin

(Except Kyrie which is Greek)

Question 8

A Chanson is in what language?

Answer 8

French

Question 9

A Madrigal is in what language?

Answer 9

Italian

Question 10

What are some of the historical events that influenced musical compositions of the Renaissance?

Answer 10

Music printing.

Led to the growth of the amateur music market. See the first teaching music books. “How to learn the violin”

Question 11

Differential the Middle Ages from the Renaissance:

The Middle Ages had Church Centers

The Renaissance has __________

Answer 11

Differential the Middle Ages from the Renaissance:

The Middle Ages had Church Centers

• Church in Aquatain etc

The Renaissance has ​Metropolican Centers

• Urban Centers
• Growth of the Middle class
• Venice is a huge growth business center

Question 12

15th Century:

Globalization starts to happen. Period of discovery and colonization. European populations were moving around the globe to discover and map. They would take elements of their culture to those places. Created _________

Answer 12

15th Century:

Globalization starts to happen. Period of discovery and colonization. European populations were moving around the globe to discover and map. They would take elements of their culture to those places. Created cross-cultural furtilization.

Question 13

What war causes a lot of music to travel across the water from England to Fracne?

Answer 13

100-years war

Question 14

Cantus Firmus Mass Settings are going to be important.

Mass Ordinary Cycles are like _______ Genre of the Renaissance.

Answer 14

Cantus Firmus Mass Settings are going to be important.

Mass Ordinary Cycles are like Symphonic Genre of the Renaissance.

Question 15

READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:

What are dittys or without dittys

Answer 15

With or without words

Question 16

READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:

____ is huge. Dance. Light. Dark. Grave. Solemn.

Answer 16

READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:

Mood is huge. Dance. Light. Dark. Grave. Solemn.

Question 17

READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:

Dances are defined by the __________. This is important because in the Baroque period composers write stylized dances–write in the style of the dance, but not meant to dance to.

Answer 17

READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:

Dances are defined by the actual movements. This is important because in the Baroque period composers write stylized dances–write in the style of the dance, but not meant to dance to.

Question 18

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

Why start in England?

Answer 18

There is evidence musicians in the continent were drawing on the English style.

Question 19

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

Manuscript that contained sacred music from the 1400s that (Motets and Masses)

Answer 19

Old Hall Manuscript

Question 20

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

Two major composers of the 1400s

Answer 20

John Dunstable

Leonel Power (Old Hall Manuscript)

Question 21

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

A way of decorating a particular section of a Carol.

Answer 21

Faburdon

Question 22

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

Sacred English genre. Language English. Decorated with parallel harmonies (3rds and 6ths, basically 63 chords, takes place in certain sections). Decorated by Faburdon.

Answer 22

Carol

Organum or Polyphony would decorate particular sections of chant by createing a Substitute Clausulae, Faburdon does the same thing. Decortes little phrases.

Question 23

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

In Faburden, the original tune is in the ____ voice with a voice improvised a 4th above and another voice a third below.

Answer 23

ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:

In Faburden, the original tune is in the middle

Question 24

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