Renaissance Flashcards
Renaissance is part of what time period? 1400-1600 1600- 1750 1150-1400 1750-1830
1400-1600
What main composers are in the renaissance era?
Giovanni Palestrina William Byrd Josquin Des Prez Claudio Monteverdi (Pal-prez-Mnt- Byrd)
Listen to Giovanni Palestrina
What did you hear?
Listen to William Byrd
What did you hear?
Listen to Josquin Des Prez
What did you hear?
Listen to Claudio Monteverdi
What did you hear?
What does William Byrd’s pieces consist of?
1400-1600 Renaissance
-sacred/secular w/ polyphony & keyboard
- choral church music with slow growing harmony
repeated melodic lines moving throughout voices
What does the choir do in William Byrds pieces?
choral church music with slow growing harmony
sacred/secular w/ polyphony & keyboard
repeated melodic lines moving throughout voices
What is Cantus Firmus?
plural Cantus Firmi, preexistent melody, such as a plainchant excerpt, underlying a polyphonic musical composition (one consisting of several independent voices or parts)
What does Josquin Dez Prez pieces consist of?
Most popular composer of this time with growing added harmony
- cantus firmus style, but also developed the motet style
- His motet/lasses show modern tonality
- later abandoned cantus firmus for parody and paraphrase
(1cantus-> motet style->parody and paraphrase)
What styles does Josquin Dez Prez have?
Cantus Firmus and motet style
He later abandoned cantus firmus for parody and paraphrase
What is parody and paraphrasing? (Josquin Dez Prez)
parody mass only applies to masses where a polyphonic fragment is used. … Masses incorporating only one voice of the polyphonic source, treated not as a cantus firmus but elaborated and moving between different parts, are known as paraphrase masses.
What does Claudio Monteverdi music consist of?
1400-1600 Renaissance
- secular/ sacred
gives development of opera
composer who transfers Ren-> Baroque
What was Claudio Monteverdi known for?
One of the first composers to have compositions of Operas
And was a composer that transferred renaissance to Baroque
Was Claudio Monteverdi Secular or Sacred?
Both
