Final Flashcards
What replaced isorhythm as chief structural device in large scale vocal works?
cantus firmus
Principle genres for sacred vocal music
Mass and motet
Head Motif
a thematic idea in multiple voices placed prominently at the beginning of a setion or movement
Mass: Missa Se la face ay pale, ca. 1450 (p.66)
How many voices? Tenor lines serves as what?
> 4 voice mass setting
> tenor line from the chanson serves as cantus firmus
missa se la face ay pale was first mass based on what? tenor was no longer what?
> first mass setting based on secular work
> first mass setting in which tenor is not lowest voice
Cyclic mass
cycle of all movements of the mass
Mass ordinary integrated by what?
cantus firums
Chanson: se la face ay pale - how many voices? what kind of work?
3 voice polyphonic secular vocal work
major composers of The Mass (3)
Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin
rhythmic device of The Mass?
mesuration canons
what begins to replace cantus firmus in The Mass?
imitation
Motet is
prayer text set to music
Motet is written to fulfill one of three principles:
- liturgical
- devotional
- occassional
Chanson moved from what texture to what texture?
layered to homogenous
Frottola poetry tended to be what?
lighthearted and sarcastic
Frottola texts included…
freely structured poems
Portative organ
portable and smaller
positive organ
larger than portative
Renaissance harpsichord is what kind of keyboard
single keyboard
Virginal
single set of strings
Spinet
single keyboard
Recorders evolved from what
panpipe instrument
What are the two principle doulbe-reed instruments?
shawm and crumhorn
Brass instruments limited to what kind of harmonics?
natural