Exam 3 (ch. 13-24) Flashcards
Who is Binchois?
Burgundian composer
Secular music
3-part chansons
Known for beautiful melodies
Who is John Dunstable?
English
Came to Burgundy in 100 years war
Used 3rds, 6ths, panconsonance that influenced Burgundian composers
Who is Dufay?
Burgundian Composer
Sacred and secular music
4 part cantus firmus mass
Who is Ockeghem?
First generation composer
Head of French King’s chapel
Bass singer
Solved Missa prolationem
Who is Josquin?
Next generation composer
Specialist in expressive motets
Expressed emotional meaning of text
Who is Isaac?
From low country
Worked for Emperor Maximillion I
Who is Sermisy?
Composed Parisian chansons
What is the date of the Renaissance?
1400 to 1600
Who was Luther?
Wrote chorales
Encouraged music in the Lutheran church
Who is Walther?
Made simple chorale pieces into polyphonic pieces
What is Imitative polyphony?
All voices play an equal role in the texture, sections of homorhythm alternate with polyphony.
Structure and meaning of text guide composers
What was common for instruments in the early Renaissance?
Instrumentalists would play music originally intended for vocalists or improvise with vocalists
What was typical for an instrumentalist during the late Renaissance?
They played the first genres intended for instrumentalists
What is a cyclic mass?
4 or 5 voice texture
Imitative polyphony alternating homorhythm and chant-like melodies
Modal
Text is in the ordinary
What is a Renaissance motet?
A polyphonic setting of a sacred Latin text that is not part of the Mass Ordinary
What is Frottola?
Popular style in Italian courts 1470-1530
Light subject matter
Main tune in soprano
Homorhythmic
Basic harmonies
What is a Madrigal?
Single stanza
Emotional poem
Through-composed
Utilized word painting
What is Parisian Chanson?
Popular style
Strophic
Light-hearted text
What is Basse danse?
Stately
Gliding court dance
What is Pavanne and galliard?
Favorite dance pair
Led to Baroque suit
Slow and duple
What is Fantasia?
Early on was improvised
Later imitative polyphony
What is a Prelude?
A piece that introduces the main musical event
What is a Canzona?
Imitated the Parisian chanson
Often used long-short motive
Lively rhythms and light imitation
What is Faburden?
Singers improvised around a given chant
What is pan-consonance?
Almost every note is apart of a triad
What is a Rondellus?
Two or three voices engage in voice exchange or phrase exchange
What is a Burden?
The refrain starts with an English carol that is repeated after each stanza
What is broken consort?
A mixed ensemble of different types of instruments
What is bas instruments?
Soft instruments
Lute, harp or vielle
What is the Cantus firmus Mass?
A cyclic Mass
Each movement is connected by a single cantus firmus
What is a consort?
An ensemble of all the same instruments in different ranges
What is contrafactum?
Transformation if a piece from secular to sacred
Or from sacred to secular
What is a chorale?
A monophonic spiritual melody or religious folksong of the Lutheran church
What are Hauts instruments?
Loud instruments
Trumpets, sackbuts and shawms
What is the song Lied?
German art song (pop song)
What is moveable type?
Moveable metal cutouts of letters or musical signs
Can be rearranged to make a new page of music and text
What is Point of imitation?
A motive that is sung or played in turn by each voice or instrumental line
What is a part book?
A book that has just one voice or instrumental part in it
What is Single-impression printing?
All notes and text are lined up to be put on staff
Requires only on pressing
Could make many more copies of music faster
What is the Soggetto cavato?
A cantus firmus extracted from the vowels of a name
What is strophe plus refrain?
A common musical firm in which the strophe, or stanza is sung by a soloist while all the singers join in with the burden or refrain
What is Tenorlied?
A polyphonic German song with preexisting tune placed in the tenor
What does through-composed mean?
New music for every stanza of text
What is strophic?
Same music repeated for each new stanza
What is word painting?
Use of choral shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text
What is the viol?
A six string instrument fretted and tune like the lute
Bowed
Available in treble, tenor and bass
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
A carol
Began with a burden
Strophe and refrain
What is Le contenance angloise?
Uses pan-consonance
Syllabic
What are the Burgundian lands?
Center of musical patronage
John Dunstaple
Who is Petrucci?
Printed the first book of polyphonic music using moveable type
Who is Pierre Attaingnant?
A printer and bookseller living in the university quarter of the Left Bank
Popularized single-impression printing
What is the violin?
slightly younger than the viol
1520s in Italy
No frets
List the six instrumental genres of the Renaissance?
Arrangements Dances Prelude Ricercar Fantasia Variations
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Invented movable type
What is humanism?
How did it effect music?
What names were involved?
Study of ancient texts and monuments with the aim of extracting a model for thinking and acting.
Francesco Petrarch studied ancient Roman texts.
Nicola Vicentino wrote chromatic pieces.
Music can affect emotions, they used theory texts from Rome and used ancient poetry
Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style
Agincourt Carol
Anonymous
Political carol
15th century England
Tuneful, discant and triple meter
Listening: composer, genre, historical background, musical style
Quam pulcra es
John Dunstaple
15th century England
Pan-consonant motet
Contains a 7-6 suspension and Faburden characteristics
Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style
Dueil angoisseus
Gilles Binchois
15th century
Formes fixes ballade
Sacred music written by a priest
Could have been played in Burgundian courts
Ends on a half cadence and has an A and B section
Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background
Lament for the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople
Dufay
15th century
Motet chanson
French text in upper voice and a Latin chant in tenor
Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background
A. Tune and B. Kyrie
Dufay
15th century
Cantus firmus mass
Encouraged Christians to fight daily battle against sin.
Lengthy/complex and five movements
Listening: Composer, genre, style and history
Prenez sur moi
Ockeghem
15th century
Forms fixes rondeau
Uses imitation and canon
Listening:
Guillaume se va chaufer
Josquin
15th century
Canon
Simple and amusing
Upper two voices sing a unison canon
King Louis XI was said to have found this piece in 1517 and liked it a lot
Listening: Composer, genre, history and style
La Spagna
Isaac
Basse danse
Pop song of the 15th century
Used as dance music
Listenings: Composer, genre, history and style
El grillo e bon cantore
Prez
16th century frottola
Uses improvisation
Vernacular poetry as text
With string instruments accompanying.
Listening: Composer, genre, history and style
Tant que vivray (a, b and c)
Sermisy
16th century
Parisian chanson
Social music intended for educated musicians (that could read music)
Ave Maria
Genre, era and composer
Motet
Josquin
16th century
Listening:
Pavane and Galliard
Anonymous
16th century
Dances
