Renaissance Composers Flashcards
* John Dunstable * Guillaume Du Fay * Josquin des Prez * William Byrd * Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) * Giovanni Gabreli
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ca. 1390-1453
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John Dunstable
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- Most highly regarded English composer of the first half of the fifteenth century
- Influenced continental composers
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John Dunstable
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works:
- up to 3 polyphonic mass cycles
- 2 Gloria-Credo pairs
- 15 other Mass Ordinary movements
- 12 isorhythmic motets
- 6 plainchant settings
- 20 other Latin sacred works
- 5 secular songs
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John Dunstable
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Three-Part:
- Most numerous and historically important
- Includes hymns, antiphons, and Mass sections
- Paraphrase technique
- Chant in top voice
- Rhythmic variety
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John Dunstable
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ca. 1397-1474
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Guillaume Du Fay
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- The most famous composer of his time
- French, Italian, English and Burgundian
- music reflects these influences
- sometimes combining different styles in the same work
- international style
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Guillaume Du Fay
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- illegitimate son of a priest
- born in Belgium
- Choirboy, then priest
- served twice in papal chapel
- served in Burgundian court under Duke Philip the Good (r. 1419-67)
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Guillaume Du Fay
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- music survives in almost 100 manuscripts from ca. 1420s to 16th cent.
- From Spain to Poland, and from Italy to Scotland – Internationally admired
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Guillaume Du Fay
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Works:
- at least 6 masses, 35 other Mass mvts.
- 4 Magnificats, 60 hymns and other chant settings
- 24 motets (13 isorhythmic, 11 freely composed)
- 34 plainchants melodies
- 60 rondeaux, 8 ballades, 13 other secular songs
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Guillaume Du Fay
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ca. 1450-1521
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Josquin des Prez
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- Most influential composer of his time
- Josquin Lebloitte, northern France
- Duke of Anjou
- Singer
- King Louis XII
- maestro di cappella to Duke Ercole I d’Este in Ferrara
- Notre Dame at Condé-sur-l’Escaut
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Josquin des Prez
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works:
- 18 masses
- Over 50 motets
- About 65 chansons (10 for instruments)
other works
- Text depiction and expression
- Famous- works performed almost 100 years after death
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Josquin des Prez
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ca. 1540-1623
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William Byrd
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music:
- Wrote in secular vocal and instrumental music
- both Anglican service music and Latin masses and motets
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William Byrd
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works:
- a Great Service, three Short Services
- psalms
- full anthems and verse anthems
- 3 masses
- 180+ motets
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William Byrd
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Man of Two Religions
- Worked for Church of England
- Was a practicing Catholic
- 1590s began to write music for liturgical use by Catholics
- compiled two books Gradulalia (1605 and 1607)
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William Byrd
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ca. 1532-1594
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Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)
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- Franco-Flemish composer in Germany
* Born in Hainaut, region of Du Fay, Ockeghem, and Josquin
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Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)
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works:
- composed over 2000 pieces
- 57 masses
- over 700 motets
- 101 Magnificats
- hundreds of other liturgical compositions
- 200 Italian madrigals
- 150 French chansons
- 90 German Lieder;
- Master of Flemish, French, Italian, and German styles
- can speak of a “Lasso style”
- Influenced later German composers
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Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)
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ca. 1555-1612
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Giovanni Gabreli
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- Studied with Orlando di Lasso
- 1585 won appt. of second organist at St. Mark’s
- Same year also elected organist to Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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Giovanni Gabreli
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works:
- Music of large proportions
- About 100 motets
- Over 30 madrigals
- 37 ensemble canzonas
- 7 sonatas
- About 35 organ works including ricercares, canzonas, toccatas, and intonazioni
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Giovanni Gabreli
