Listening Quiz 3 Flashcards
Ricercar del duodecimo tuono
1589
Genre: Ricercar Composer: Andrea Gabrieli. Ionion mode on C. Imitative and sectional. Shifts between two and three
Differencias el canto de la dam ale demande
C. 1540-1566
Genre-keyboard variation. Of song “the lady demands it.” Five variations. Melody in top voice. Theme is popular melody “Belle, qui Tient ma vie” Modest demands. Theme and variations of most popular keyboard genres
Il Bianco e dolce cigno
1535-1539
Genre: madrigal Composer: Jacob Arcadelt. Moments of text painting
Plays in two poetic conceits. Sudden chord shift on weeping-piagando
Seemingly endless imitation on “thousand deaths a day”-di mile morti il di. Sexual innuendo on death
Prophetiae Sibyllarun: Prologue
1550-1552
Genre: motet Composer: Orlando de Lassus. Extremely Chromatic at beginning uses all 12 notes. Presented as a gift to patron Albrecht V
Builds triads on 9 different roots. “Sibylline prophecies” cycle of 12 motets with prologue. In “musica reservata” reserved for small, intimate audiences. Sibyls-ancient Greek phrophesses
Come, heavy sleep
Ca. 1590-1597
Genre: lute song composer: john Dowland. Strophic madrigal (flourished in late 16th and early 17th centuries). Long, languid arch of cantus firmus conveys fatigue. Melancholy text and setting. First stanza- consort song: solo soprano accompanied by consort of viols and lute. Counterpoint is especially clear. Second stanza-countertenor accompanied by lute which realizes accompanying lines. Performance with four voices with or without lute could be performed.
Motet: Cum Essen parvulus
1579
Genre: motet composer: Orlando de Lassus. Six voices. Text from 1 Corinthians 13:11-13. Opening in upper voices, sung by children. “I spoke” evokes memory as an adult. “facie ad faciem” chordal setting. “Ut parvulus”-as a child, sung by upper voices.
Da le belle contrade d’oriente
1566
Genre: madrigal composer: Cipriano de Rore. Five voices. Very imitative, less chordal. Word painting. Chromatic and expressive.
Missa pope Marcelli: credo
1565-1567
Genre: mass composer: Giovanni Pierlugi Da Palestrina. Most important work. Six voices. Showed polyphonic masses were ok. Largely syllabic. Discrete Melismas. Careful control of dissonance. Textually coherent and musically satisfying. Begins with unloaded solo intonation of opening words of credo. Many thirds and sixths.
Verily, verily I say unto you
1580
Genre: anthem composer: Thomas Tallis. Mostly chordal. Some word painting. Full anthem sung accapella. Recording uses women but mostly sung by boys or countertenors.
“Pavana” from The Earle of Salisbury
1613
Genre: dance music composer: William Byrd.
Binary form. 4+4 pattern relative of tonic and dominant. Slow courtly dance. Heavily ornamented.
Now is the Month of Maying
1595
Genre: English madrigal composer: Thomas Morley. Entirely chordal texture. Word painting. Five voices. Modeled after Itailian “balleto”-strophic, dance like, use fa,la,la refrain.
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
1599
Genre: English madrigal composer: chordal. Word painting. Refers to pastoral shepherdess Phyllis. Playful style, common to English madrigal.
Sing joyfully unto God
1590-1623
Genre: anthem composer: William Byrd. Thorough composed. Full anthem with six voice texture. Subtle word painting. Imitative.
Matona Mia cara
1575-1581
Genre: villanella composer: Orlando de Lassus. Example of villanella- lighter type of polyphony in homophonic style, less intricate than madrigal. Pokes fun at German mercenary. Humorous, difficult to translate.
Morir non puo il mio cuore
1566
Genre: madrigal composer: Maddalena Casulana. Earliest printed by a woman. Mix of usage of counterpoint and chordal textures. Music exemplifies text. Major chord at the end.
