french and italian in the 14th

Question 1

14th century

Answer 1

is about the black death,
hundred years of war,
poverty,
the popes authority was questioned

Question 2

composers of secular

Answer 2

• Guillaume de machaut: france
• Francesco landin: italy
• both focused on secular music

Question 3

Philip the Vitry

Answer 3

> A treaties called the ars nova attributed to him ,
French musician

> wrote five of the motets in the roman de fauvel (narrative poem satirrizing political corruption

> > their tenors provide the easrlierst examples of isorhythm (equal rhythm)

Question 4

Ars nova

Answer 4

the style and technique is based on rhythm and notation

Question 5

Roman de fauvel

Answer 5

• narrative poem
• 169 pieces within the poem
• ars nova motets
• tenors are in isorhytmic or identical rhythme and might recuure as many as ten times,

Question 6

talea and color

Answer 6

Recurring methods in motet tenors, rhytmic and melodic

> the repeating rhytmic unit was “talea”
reccuring segment of melody “color”

> In some motets, the tale and color do not coincide so that repetittion of color begin in the middle of a talea

Question 7

Machaut’s motets

Answer 7

traditional method:
>borrowed tenors support two other voices
>longer and more rhytimivally complex

> 19 masses are isorhythmic

> emphasized talea recurrences by a technique called hocket

Question 8

Hocket

Answer 8

two voices alternate to rapid succession,

one resting while other sings

Question 9

machaut

Answer 9

practitioner of the ars nova in france

great composer of monophony courtly lyrics

wrote motets, monophonic virelasi, polyphonic chansons

Question 10

francessco landini

Answer 10

italian musician of the trecento
composed for his own pleasure

Wrote 140 ballate
Two voices singing same text like the madrigals

Solo voice with twi accompanying nontext voices

Melismatic passages

Landini cadances

Question 11

Antonio squarcialupi

Answer 11

> florentine organist
created squarcialupi codex

The codex included three types of compositions:
>madrigal,
>caccia
>ballata: dance song

Ballata later becomes popular and it betrays the treble dominated french chansons

Question 12

madrigals

Answer 12

italian

Love poems usually set for two voices

Question 13

Isorhythm

Answer 13

Musically unifying device for tenors in motets

(Equal rhythm)

Tenors are laid out in segments of equal rhythm

Question 14

Hocket

Answer 14

Two voices alternating in rapid succession, one singing, while the other rests

Question 15

Italian trecento

Answer 15

Secular songs of italy
Madrigals

Question 16

Madrigals

Answer 16

Love poems usually set for two voices
Idyllic, pastiral, satirical
(Jacopo)