Franco flemish 1450-1520

Question 1

jean de ockeghem

Answer 1

northern eastern france
> wrote masss, motets, chansons

> some of his masses are based on a cantus firmus
Used canons

used modes as a basis of his masses rather a cantus firmus

wrote courtley poetry too

Question 2

canon (used by ockeghem)

Answer 2

technique for deriving two or more voices from a single notated voice
(2 lower, 2 upper)

based of imitation

instruction or rule by which these parts are derived.

the rule can instruct the 2nd voice to sing after a certain number of beats

or to sing the melody reversed resulting in a retrogate canon

Question 3

retrogate canon

Answer 3

second voice singing the melody backwards.

Question 4

double canon

Answer 4

two canons sung simultaneously

Question 5

mensuration canon

Answer 5

voices move at diff rates of speed

Question 6

odhecaton

Answer 6

the first printed anthology/collection of chansons

it shows how northern music penetraded into italy

music from 1470-1500

consisted of 3 and 4 voices
4 voices are fuller texture, more completely imitative counterpoint

clear harmonic structure, quality of voices

Question 7

josquin desprez

Answer 7

music republished and recopied by printing press

in contrast of okceghem he abandones formes fixes and used stropic texts and simple four-five line poems.

polyphoic fabric of his chansons are not formed in independant layers but are unified and interwoven with imitation

comunication of music to the meaning of the text.

Question 8

desperez masses

Answer 8

Ave maria

Music perfectly crafted to fit words

Attention to text by giving each segment a unique musical treatment

Imitation

Question 9

parody or imitation mass

Answer 9

borrows from another polyphonic material

works better if the borrowed is a motet or chanson

Borrows from all voices rather than one cf

Question 10

cantus firmus mass:
paraphrase mass
parody mass:

Answer 10

du fay sela face
borrowed material in the tenor
how: in long note
>texture: layerd

josquin missa pange
borrowed chant or other melody in all voices,
how; paraphrased and notes added
>imitative with some homophonic

josquin missa malheur me
all voices from polyphoniv work,
used in all voices
how: motives, points of imiation
>texture: imitative with homophone passages