CLASS: Sep 26, 2018 Flashcards
The Renaissance saw a definitive shift in harmonic taste. Which intervals can help us differentiate Renaisaance music as opposed to Medieval music?
3rd and 6ths
Why did the taste for different “consonant” intervals cange in the Renaissance?
“Sweet sounding”.
Sounds good to the ear.
How does musical texture shift from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance?
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.)
How does a composer’s attitude toward text change in the Renaissance?
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.
Which medieval genres carry forth into the Renaissance?
- Motet
- Mass
- Madrigal
- Chanson
A Renaissance motet is in what language?
Latin (Except Medieval can have French)
A Mass is in what language?
Latin
(Except Kyrie which is Greek)
A Chanson is in what language?
French
A Madrigal is in what language?
Italian
What are some of the historical events that influenced musical compositions of the Renaissance?
Music printing.
Led to the growth of the amateur music market. See the first teaching music books. “How to learn the violin”
Differential the Middle Ages from the Renaissance:
The Middle Ages had Church Centers
The Renaissance has __________
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
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 _________
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.
What war causes a lot of music to travel across the water from England to Fracne?
100-years war
Cantus Firmus Mass Settings are going to be important.
Mass Ordinary Cycles are like _______ Genre of the Renaissance.
Cantus Firmus Mass Settings are going to be important.
Mass Ordinary Cycles are like Symphonic Genre of the Renaissance.
READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:
What are dittys or without dittys
With or without words
READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:
____ is huge. Dance. Light. Dark. Grave. Solemn.
READING: GENRES OF MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE:
Mood is huge. Dance. Light. Dark. Grave. Solemn.
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.
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.
ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:
Why start in England?
There is evidence musicians in the continent were drawing on the English style.
ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:
Manuscript that contained sacred music from the 1400s that (Motets and Masses)
Old Hall Manuscript
ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:
Two major composers of the 1400s
John Dunstable
Leonel Power (Old Hall Manuscript)
ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:
A way of decorating a particular section of a Carol.
Faburdon
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.
Carol
Organum or Polyphony would decorate particular sections of chant by createing a Substitute Clausulae, Faburdon does the same thing. Decortes little phrases.
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.
ENGLISH GENRES OF THE 1400:
In Faburden, the original tune is in the middle
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