Renaissance Flashcards
When is the Renaissance era and key specifications:
1500-1700 CE. The key specifications are: Decline of faith, returning back to Greeks perspectives, voyages of Christoph Colombo, secular movements and Black death.
Who are key scholars of Renaissance era:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, Rafael.
What is the music characteristics of Renaissance era:
Word painting and avoiding Iso Rhythmic trends had been used in Middle ages. No Melismatic approaches. They mostly tried to let the words being song by their natural sounds…
What is the music Genre of Renaissance:
High Mass
Who are the key composers of Renaissance:
Josquin Des pRES(1450 CE) and Palestrina(1525 C.E).
What is High Mass:
The word Mass is taken from the ITE MISSA EST(Thanks to be to God). As the last section and conclusion of Mass. Mass is principle daily service of Catholic church and has two main parts: Proper(11 sections)j and Ordinary(6 Sections
What are the segments of High mass and differences:
Two main parts: Proper and Ordinary. Proper is daily simple songs and Ordinary is for specific occasions and is longer.
What is the specifications of Renaissance High Mass:
All are based of triad based harmony(not tonal), All based on Ordinary only 5 segments(ITE MISSA EST) is not included, All have 4 voices.
What were the main challenges for Renaissance composers to High Mass and what were the solutions?
Challenge No.1: Which sections of Mass should be selected—> Ordinary(except last conclusion part), Challenge No.2: How to connect each segment—> Decided to use Plainchant as unifying element.
Explain the key kinds of High Mass:
No.1: Tenor Mass: Plainchant has high role, No.2: Paraphrased Mass that Josquin was talented in(like Petit?) that more melodic gestures included in Plainchant and less role of plainchant and No.3: Imitation mass and using secular non religious Plainchant in High Mass.
What was Church objection: .
The tolerance of Church came to end by Imitation mass and Martin Luther came with reformation in Catholic church as Protestant reformation
Explain Protestant reformation:
By Martin Luther in Germany and making objections against Catholic church. Their objection took 10 years and finally was: No instruments in church, bad pronunciation of words, Polyphony and….
Does High Mass only belong to Renaissance:
No! In High Middle Ages also Gallium De Machaut wrote whole Mass to music! Which was very long.
Who served Polyphony music?
One of the objections was bad hearing of words caused by polyphony. Giovani Palestrina(16th century) invented a new method of 6 voices polyphony that proved that Polyphony can show clear hearing of words.
