Renaissance and Humanism Flashcards
Renaissance shifted thought from…
scholasticism to humanism.
English’s music harmony and structure (contenance angloise) gradually became…
surrogate “ancient music” to imitate.
Great Schism (1417) increased…
patronage; allowed new approaches to composition.
The Contenance Angloise
Refers to harmonies dominated by thirds, fifths, and sixths (triads)
Du Fay’s Lamentatio written to…
convince people to go on a crusade to retake Constantinople (Fell to Ottomans in 1453).
Lamentatio is a…
chanson-motet (secular song with added cantus firmus derived from chant).
Musical structures of 15th century can be…
fairly traditional (Du Fay’s Lamentatio) or free (Dunstable’s Quam).
Pieces tended to demonstrate composer’s consciousness of…
meaning of text more than before.
After 1501, music’s circulation accelerates due to…
printing.
