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