Reformation and Counter-Reformation Flashcards
Reformation and Counter-Reformation caused by…
increase in humanist thought.
Liturgy and musical role in Reformation reevaluated through…
Protestant practice of congregational singing/participation in vernacular language and Catholic simplified chant/polyphony to increase text intelligibility.
Genre of chorale established to…
involve common people in liturgy.
chorale
strophic liturgical song in German
Luther transformed…
Gregorian hymns into chorales and composed new ones.
Calvinist songs were…
only Biblical text; rhymed/metrical to make them easier to sing/set to music.
Book of Common Prayer (1549) established…
English liturgy.
In England, polyphony was…
allowed, but texts had to be well understood.
Liturgical reforms during the Counter-Reformation aimed to…
make mass more intelligible to common worshipper.
Roman church music during Counter-Reformation emphasized…
homophonic textures, but did not exclude imitative polyphony.
Council of Trent discouraged use of…
secular material as basis for polyphonic mass.
