Listening Flashcards

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How beautiful you are

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John Dunstable
1st half of 15th century
Adapted from song of solomon 7: 4-12
A motet and a cantilena
Rhythm is simple and varied, with some hemiolas
An example of contenance angloise because...
- its consonant
- it has lots of 3rds
- it uses fauxbourdon
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2
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More and more

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Binchois (Gilles de Bins)
1425
About courtly love
Rondeau form
Imperfect time, major prolation
Landini cadences
Hemiolas, dotted rhythms, syncopation
Texture is mostly treble
Mostly syllabic
Unusual cadence at the end of A section, and unexpected final on D
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Ballade: If my face is pale

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Guillaume Du Fay
1430
French, English, and Italian Elements
FRENCH: Ballade form, syncopation, angular countertenor
ENGLISH: Pervasive consonance, thirds and sixths, triadic figures
ITALIAN: Stepwise tenor and countertenor, mainly syllabic
Composed to honour the Holy Shroud
4 voice tenor
Cantus firmus mass

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4
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Gloria: If my face is pale

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Guillaume Du Fay
1430
Recognizable by use of Ballade tenor
Centered on F
"Et in terra pax" material used throughout
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5
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Innsbruck, I must leave you

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Henricus Isaac
1500
A lied
Homophonic
Strophic
Syllabic
Modal (lydian)
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A thousand regrets

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Josquin Desprez
1520
Switches between homophony and imitation
Used combinations of 2, 3, and 4 voices
Used descending text figures
Reiteration in text figures
Phrygian mode
Cadences on A, sounds Aeolian
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7
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Hail Mary Serene Virgin

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Josquin Desprez
1480-85
Written when Desprez was working for Sforzas
Hypoionian
Cadence on C
7 sections
1. Hail Mary (imitation)
2. Conception (Fauxbourdon)
3. Birth (Voice pairing and imitation)
4. Pious humility (Voice pairing)
5. True virginity (Full four voice texture)
6. Most excellent (Variety)
7. Prayer (declamation in rhythmic unison)
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A mighty fortress (M)

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Martin Luther
1529
Strophic
aab form
Ionian mode
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A mighty fortress (J)

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Johann Walter
1529
Sung in service by choir or in other places
Tune is in tenor, surrounded by counterpoint

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10
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Sing joyfully unto God

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William Byrd
1580s - 90s
Written during reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Composer was quietly Catholic
Ionian
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Agnus Dei I, Pope Marcellus Mass

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
1560
Cambiata

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12
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The white and sweet swan

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Jacques Aradelt
1538
Text alternates lines of 7 and 11 syllables
2 meanings to death metaphor
1. Love
2. Sex
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13
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Alone and pensive

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Luca Marenzio
1590
Madrigalisms
Chromatic motion = wandering steps
Leaps and runs = mountains and rivers
Jagged motive = darting eyes
Dotted rhythms = cupids pursuit
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“I depart” I said no more

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Carlo Gesualdo
1600
Chromaticism, dissonance and descending lines on sad words
Through composed
Phrygian
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Flow my tears, Second book of Ayres

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John Dowland
1600
aabbCC
a and C sections have the same ending
Hypoaeolian
Descending = tears
Rests = laboured
Descending on happy = irony
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16
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John come kiss me now

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William Byrd
1600
variations form
Scored for virginal
Simple tune
Melody is hidden in variation 6
Mixolydian
17
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Canzona in mode 7 in 8 parts, Sacred Symphony

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Giovanni Gabrieli
1597
One of the first scores to specify instruments and dynamics
Scored for instruments
Cori Spezzati = ensemble is split into alternating groups
Chanson like