Music History - Renaissance Flashcards
John Dunstable
English composer of the 15th century. Composed in polyphonic genres, mathmatician, astronomer, and musician.
Guillaume Fay
Leading composer of his time. Son of a priest and unmaried woman. Music survives in almost 100 manuscripts.
6 masses, 35 other mass movements, 4 magnificats, 60 hymns, 24 motets, 34 plainchant melodies, 60 rondeaus, 8 ballads, 13 secular songs.
Motet
Genre created in the early 13th century by adding newly written Lating words to the upper voices of discant clasulae.
Cantus Firmus Mass
The use of a head motive was comined with another way of linking movements: constructing each one around the same cantus firmus, normally placed in the tenor.
Villancico
The most important form of secular polyphonic song in Renaissance Spain.
Pastoral
Nature and plants, pastors with sheep.
Madrigal
Composers placed emphasis on enriching the meaning and impact of the text through the musical setting. Composers explored new effects of declamation, imagery, expressivity, characterization, and dramatization that paved the way for future dramatic forms such as opera.
Through Composed
“With new music for every line poetry.
Thomas Morely
Wrote madrigals, canzonets, and ballrts. Ballet “Sing we and chant it.” English composer. Long live fair Oriana. modeled after Gastoidis A liesta vita. Both are strophic in (AABB)
Thomas Weelkes
Madrigal “As Vesta Was.” Capitalized on word painting. Long Live Fair Oriana is set to a motive that enters almost 50 time in every voice possible.
Lute Songs
Early 1600’s. Leading Composers= John Dowland and Thomas Campion. More personal genre than a Madrigal; more serious and literary texts.
Tablture
Notational system that tells the player which strings to pluck and where to place the fingers on the strings, rather than indicating what pitches will result.
John Dowland
Lute song composer. “Flow, My Tears.”
Chorale
Congregational hymn of the Lutheran church.
Martin Luther
The Reformation. Creator of the Lutheran Church.
