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Madrigals Flashcards

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Villancico

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  • The most important form of secular polyphonic music in Renaissance Spain
  • Diminutive of ‘villano’ (peasant)
  • Composed for Aristocracy
  • Short
  • Strophic
  • Syllabic
  • Homophonic
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Frottola

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  • italian counterpart to the villancico
  • 4 part
  • strophic
  • homophonic
  • melody in upper parts
  • simple diatonic harmony (root-position triads)
  • meant to sing poetry
  • lower parts add harmonic foundation
  • mock-popular songs for courtly elite
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Madrigal

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  • Most important secular music
  • enriched meaning and impact of the text
  • new effects of declamation, imagery, expressivity, characterization, and dramatization
  • led to opera
  • single stanza w/ 7 or 11 syllable lines
  • match the artfulness of the poetry and to convey its ideas, images, and emotions to the performers and listeners
  • standard or free rhyme scheme
  • no refrains or repeated lines
  • ## a piece of vocal chamber music intended for performance with one singer to a part
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Lute Song

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Estribillos

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Refrain

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Coplas

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Stanzas

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Mudanza

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  • New Section

- Change

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Refrain

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Vuelta

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Juan Del Encina

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  • 1st Spanish Playwright

- Leading Composers of villancicos

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Pastoral

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Oy comamos y bebamos

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  • Juan Del Encina
  • one day before lent
  • simple melody/harmony
  • dancelike rhythms
  • hemiolas
  • pastoral/poetry drama
  • created eclogues
  • characters sang villancicos
  • entertainment for nobles/courtiers
  • homophonic
  • root position triads
  • ## shifts in 6/8 & 3/4
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Eclogues

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  • Juan Del Encina
  • one act pastoral play
  • mark the beginning of spanish secular drama
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Baldassare Castiglione

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Vuelta

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Return or repetition

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Through-Composed

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Composed throughout, as when each stanza or other unit of a poem is set to new music rather than in a strophic manner to a single melody.

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Il bianco e dolce cigno

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  • 1538
  • plaintive rising and falling half step
  • Most famous of Arcadelt’s madrigals
  • mid 1530’s
  • not strophic
  • no refrain
  • no repetition
  • freely alternate between 7 / 11 syllables
  • homophonic
  • marked rhythms
  • enjambment effect
  • polyphony
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Da le belle contrade d’oriente

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  • Rore’s last madrigal collection
  • Syncopation
  • 1560-1565
  • madrigal
  • Cipriano de rore
  • a sonnet
  • syncopation
  • 5/6 parts
  • ## dramatic scene
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“Io parto” e non più dissi

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1611
Carlo gerusaldo
slow
chromatic
chordal
dissonance - laments
diatonic
dissonant
consonant
homophonic
imitative
breaks passages to leave memorable images
syncopation
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Solo e pensoso

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1599
Luca Terenzio
madrigal
deft counterpoint
chromatic in the top voice
descending arpeggios
syncopation
suspensions
cross relations
chromaticism
1590s
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Madrigalisms

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text depiction

word painting

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balletts

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balletts

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consents

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16th italian
song genre in mostly homophonic style
dim. of canzona

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Consort Song

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voice accompanied by consort of viols

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Meistersingers

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German master singer
amateur singer / poet composer
member of a guild that cultivated monophonic songs
derived from minnelieder
urban merchants / artisans
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air de cour

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song for voice accompaniment
court air
dominant type of French vocal music

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Revecy venir du printans

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duple and triple groupings alternate freely
musique mesuree
chanson
late 16th centure
strophic
SS LS LS L L 
meter gives coherence
tries to emulate Ancient Greek poetic meter instead of being hemiolic
melismas in each part
relain for 5 voices
strophes - chants
some lines were doubled my instrument
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Musique mesurée

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measured music
text setting in chansons
stressed syllables are given longer notes than unstressed
usually 2x longer

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La nuict froide et sombre

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chanson
Orlando de lassus
1570s
light homophonic type
syncopated - altus / cantus
harmony - structure / contrast
mode 1 - final cadence / superiors/temor ranges
1st part - mode final d / 2nd scale degree E / 
2nd part - on f / bright sonority / 
close on D
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Martin menoit son pourceau

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imitative counterpoint
symmetrical rhyme
chanson
1534
2 stanzas
5 lines - iambic pentameter
staggered
through composed
homorhythimic endings
LSS Rhythms
g dorian
accompanied by lute
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Tant que vivray

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courtly love
top melody
accented dissonances
syncopated suspension before cadence
1527
chanson
Claudia de sermisy
tuneful melody
syllabic declamation
lively rhythm
simple harmonies
homophonic texture
balanced phrases
repeated sections
2 strophes
aab form
syllabic
homophonic
harmony on root position triads
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Balletto

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little dance
simple
dancelike
homophonic
falala refrains
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Canzonetta

A 
little song
16th 
simple
homophonic
diminutive of canzona
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Villanella

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lively strophic piece
3 voices
homophonic style
1540s
parallel 5ths
rustic
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a lieta vita

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Strophic
aabb - repeated sections
begin with homophonic setting
conclude - falala refrains
dancelike rhythms, 
varied textures, 
occasional contrapuntal 
Giovanni giacomo Castoldi
balletto
1593
homophonic
accompany by position root triads
mode 7 mixolydian
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Flow my tears

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John Dowland
pavane form
processional dance
3 repeated strains
aabbCC
2nd books of songs or ayres
contrapuntal
6-8 cadence
falling 5th in bass
harmonies rise in 3rds/5ths
root motion is directional
plagal mode on a
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Tablature

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old sheet music
indicates what strings to pluck
to tell pitches

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Lute Song

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solo song with lute acc.

39
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As vesta was

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Thomas weelkes
madrigal
rising/falling scales
1601
5 rhymed couplets
4 voices
imitative polyphony
alternating pairs
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Sing we and chant it

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Strophic
aabb - repeated sections
begin with homophonic setting
conclude - falala refrains
dancelike rhythms, 
varied textures, 
occasional contrapuntal
Thomas Morley
ballett
1595
mode 7 mixolydian
4square
homorhythmic
homophonic
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balletts

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little dance
simple
dancelike
homophonic
falala refrains

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