Renaissance Characteristics

Question 1

Differences in original manuscript from modern score

Answer 1

1.No bar lines
2. Clefs were all “C” clefs
3. Often written “for voices or viols.”
4. Those performing, only saw their part, and stood around a large part book.

Question 2

Two types of modern editions of Renaissance Music:

Answer 2

1. Collected works edition - presents an engraved edition of the work in its original format.
2. Performance edition - presents an historically-informed modern score.

Question 3

Three ways that modern editors have dealt with the lack of measures (bar lines) in Renaissance Music

Answer 3

1. Adding time signature and bar lines.
2. No stated time signature is used but dotted bar lines are used.
3. Variabar - No time signature is used but bar lines vary in the score from part to part as the music dictates.

Question 4

Two qualities of a good, modern performance edition of Renaissance Music

Answer 4

1. An incipit at the start of the edition, showing the original clefs.
2. Notes in the edition, referencing the source manuscript.

Question 5

Two qualities of a good, modern performance edition of Renaissance Music

Answer 5

1. An incipit at the start of the edition, showing the original clefs.
2. Notes in the edition, referencing the source manuscript.