Powerpoints 19, 20, & 21

Question 0

Name characteristics of Lutheran Church music, and any genres associated with it.

Answer 0

Vernacular language used in worship.
Congregational singing emphasized.
>Genre: CHORALE; melodies taken from Gregorian chant, retexted (contrafactum), newly composed; huge repertoire by 1600.

Question 1

What were the 3 Reformation movements? Who were they headed by?

Answer 1

Lutheran - Martin Luther
Calvinist - Jean Calvin
Church of England - King Henry VIII

Question 2

List characteristics of Calvinist music, and any genres associated with it.

Answer 2

Unison psalm-singing.
>TERMINOLOGY: Metrical Psalms, Psalters, Polyphonic psalm setting.
Repertory numbers in the thousands.

Question 3

List terms associated with Anglican Church Music.

Answer 3

Great Service.
Short Service.
Full Anthem.
Verse Anthem.

Question 4

What was the Catholic Counter-Reformation’s approach to church music?

Answer 4

Eliminated tropes and most sequences.
Unsupported move to eliminate polyphonic music.
Style changed towards text intelligibility.

Question 5

List any notable accomplishments of Orlande de Lassus.

Answer 5

Belgium.
Enormous compositional output (masses, motets, magnificats, French chansons, Italian madrigals, German lieder)
His compositions reflected interpretation of the text; there were not necessarily heard, only realized if reading the score in performance.
His unpublished set of motets, “Prophetiae sibyllarum”, pushes the bounds of the modal system to its breaking point

Question 6

What is “Mannerism”? List any musical characteristics associated with this term.

Answer 6

Reaction to "naturalism", or trying to portray the world as it is.
In music:
> extreme dissonances
> heightened chromaticism
> unusual harmonic progressions
> exaggerated word-painting