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Exam 3 (ch. 13-24) Flashcards

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Who is Binchois?

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Burgundian composer

Secular music

3-part chansons

Known for beautiful melodies

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Who is John Dunstable?

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English

Came to Burgundy in 100 years war

Used 3rds, 6ths, panconsonance that influenced Burgundian composers

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Who is Dufay?

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Burgundian Composer

Sacred and secular music

4 part cantus firmus mass

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Who is Ockeghem?

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First generation composer

Head of French King’s chapel

Bass singer

Solved Missa prolationem

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Who is Josquin?

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Next generation composer

Specialist in expressive motets

Expressed emotional meaning of text

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Who is Isaac?

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From low country

Worked for Emperor Maximillion I

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Who is Sermisy?

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Composed Parisian chansons

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What is the date of the Renaissance?

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1400 to 1600

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Who was Luther?

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Wrote chorales

Encouraged music in the Lutheran church

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Who is Walther?

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Made simple chorale pieces into polyphonic pieces

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What is Imitative polyphony?

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All voices play an equal role in the texture, sections of homorhythm alternate with polyphony.

Structure and meaning of text guide composers

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What was common for instruments in the early Renaissance?

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Instrumentalists would play music originally intended for vocalists or improvise with vocalists

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What was typical for an instrumentalist during the late Renaissance?

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They played the first genres intended for instrumentalists

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What is a cyclic mass?

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4 or 5 voice texture

Imitative polyphony alternating homorhythm and chant-like melodies

Modal

Text is in the ordinary

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What is a Renaissance motet?

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A polyphonic setting of a sacred Latin text that is not part of the Mass Ordinary

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What is Frottola?

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Popular style in Italian courts 1470-1530

Light subject matter

Main tune in soprano

Homorhythmic

Basic harmonies

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What is a Madrigal?

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Single stanza

Emotional poem

Through-composed

Utilized word painting

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What is Parisian Chanson?

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Popular style

Strophic

Light-hearted text

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What is Basse danse?

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Stately

Gliding court dance

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What is Pavanne and galliard?

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Favorite dance pair

Led to Baroque suit

Slow and duple

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What is Fantasia?

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Early on was improvised

Later imitative polyphony

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What is a Prelude?

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A piece that introduces the main musical event

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What is a Canzona?

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Imitated the Parisian chanson

Often used long-short motive

Lively rhythms and light imitation

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What is Faburden?

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Singers improvised around a given chant

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What is pan-consonance?

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Almost every note is apart of a triad

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What is a Rondellus?

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Two or three voices engage in voice exchange or phrase exchange

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What is a Burden?

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The refrain starts with an English carol that is repeated after each stanza

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What is broken consort?

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A mixed ensemble of different types of instruments

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What is bas instruments?

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Soft instruments

Lute, harp or vielle

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What is the Cantus firmus Mass?

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A cyclic Mass

Each movement is connected by a single cantus firmus

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What is a consort?

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An ensemble of all the same instruments in different ranges

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What is contrafactum?

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Transformation if a piece from secular to sacred

Or from sacred to secular

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What is a chorale?

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A monophonic spiritual melody or religious folksong of the Lutheran church

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What are Hauts instruments?

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Loud instruments

Trumpets, sackbuts and shawms

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What is the song Lied?

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German art song (pop song)

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What is moveable type?

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Moveable metal cutouts of letters or musical signs

Can be rearranged to make a new page of music and text

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What is Point of imitation?

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A motive that is sung or played in turn by each voice or instrumental line

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What is a part book?

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A book that has just one voice or instrumental part in it

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What is Single-impression printing?

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All notes and text are lined up to be put on staff

Requires only on pressing

Could make many more copies of music faster

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What is the Soggetto cavato?

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A cantus firmus extracted from the vowels of a name

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What is strophe plus refrain?

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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

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What is Tenorlied?

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A polyphonic German song with preexisting tune placed in the tenor

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What does through-composed mean?

A

New music for every stanza of text

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What is strophic?

A

Same music repeated for each new stanza

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What is word painting?

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Use of choral shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text

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What is the viol?

A

A six string instrument fretted and tune like the lute

Bowed

Available in treble, tenor and bass

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What is the Battle of Agincourt?

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A carol

Began with a burden

Strophe and refrain

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What is Le contenance angloise?

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Uses pan-consonance

Syllabic

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What are the Burgundian lands?

A

Center of musical patronage

John Dunstaple

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Who is Petrucci?

A

Printed the first book of polyphonic music using moveable type

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Who is Pierre Attaingnant?

A

A printer and bookseller living in the university quarter of the Left Bank

Popularized single-impression printing

51
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What is the violin?

A

slightly younger than the viol

1520s in Italy

No frets

52
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List the six instrumental genres of the Renaissance?

A 
Arrangements
Dances
Prelude
Ricercar 
Fantasia 
Variations
53
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Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

A

Invented movable type

54
Q

What is humanism?

How did it effect music?

What names were involved?

A

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

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Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style

Agincourt Carol

A

Anonymous

Political carol

15th century England

Tuneful, discant and triple meter

56
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Listening: composer, genre, historical background, musical style

Quam pulcra es

A

John Dunstaple

15th century England

Pan-consonant motet

Contains a 7-6 suspension and Faburden characteristics

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Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style

Dueil angoisseus

A

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

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Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background

Lament for the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople

A

Dufay

15th century
Motet chanson

French text in upper voice and a Latin chant in tenor

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Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background

A. Tune and B. Kyrie

A

Dufay

15th century
Cantus firmus mass

Encouraged Christians to fight daily battle against sin.

Lengthy/complex and five movements

60
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Listening: Composer, genre, style and history

Prenez sur moi

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Ockeghem

15th century
Forms fixes rondeau

Uses imitation and canon

61
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Listening:

Guillaume se va chaufer

A

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

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Listening: Composer, genre, history and style

La Spagna

A

Isaac

Basse danse

Pop song of the 15th century

Used as dance music

63
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Listenings: Composer, genre, history and style

El grillo e bon cantore

A

Prez

16th century frottola

Uses improvisation
Vernacular poetry as text
With string instruments accompanying.

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Listening: Composer, genre, history and style

Tant que vivray (a, b and c)

A

Sermisy

16th century
Parisian chanson

Social music intended for educated musicians (that could read music)

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Ave Maria

Genre, era and composer

A

Motet

Josquin

16th century

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Listening:

Pavane and Galliard

A

Anonymous

16th century
Dances

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