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Renaissance Flashcards

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Musical texture

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mostly polyphonic

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Rhythm

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more gentle flow with sharply defined beat

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Word painting

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musical representation of specific poetic images

music reflecting text, enhancing emotions of texts

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Acapella

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choral music

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“Golden Age” of acapella

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Renaissance

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Madrigal

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piece for several solo voices set to short poem, combining polyphonic and homophonic

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Lute

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plucked string instrument shaped like half a pear

most popular in Renaissance

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Instrumental music because increasingly important in the…

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Renaissance

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Pierre Caroubel

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Pavanne and Galliard (1612) - instrumental

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Josquin Desprey

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wrote masses, motets, secular, and vocal pieces
influenced other composers
Ave Maria (1475)

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John Dowland

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Flow My Tears (1600)

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Palestrina

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devoted music to Catholic church
104 masses, 450 other sacred works
restraint, serenity, spiritual music

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Courts shifting as patrons in the…

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Renaissance

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Renaissance time period

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1450-1600

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