Renaissance I Flashcards
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Important European Names 1400-1700
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- Machiovelli
- Cervantes
- Villan
- Shakespeare
- Bunyan
- Hobbes
- Locke
- Newton –Physicist
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15th and 16th Cent. Painters/Artists
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- Fra Angelico
- Masaccio
- Felix Ghilberti – Sculpture - Bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery
- Brunelleschi – Artist and engineer – Cathedral dome in Florence
- Raphael
- Michelangelo
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Jean De (Johannes) Ockeghem
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- C.A. 1410 – 1497
- Flemish – Early Renaissance
- Technical mastery of counterpoint
- 4 voices, lower texture (extended bass line to F)
- Puzzles, concealed meaning, mensuration
- 12 masses, 20 motets, 20 chansons
- Representative – Requiem
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1440
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Gutenberg - invention of the printing press
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Josquin Desprez (Des Prez)
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- C.A. 1450 – 1521
- Franco-Flemish, Burgundian School
- At least 20 masses
- 95 motets
- 70 Chansons
- Representative – Ave Maria
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Jacob Obrecht
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- 1453 – 1505
- Franco-Flemish, Early Renaissance/Transitional
- 34 Masses, some Cantus Firmus, Some Parody
- 30 Motets are more syllabic than Masses
- One voice slow, 2 fast
- One Magnificat
- 30 secular pieces
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Clément Janequin
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- CA. 1475 – 1560
- French – Program Chansons
- 2 Masses, one surviving motet
- 250 Chanson
- 250 Psalms
- Representative – Le chant des oiseaux
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Claudin De Sermisy
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- C.A. 1490-1562
- French Renaissance - Somewhat like Josquin
- Influenced by polyphonic chanson - Melodies avoid excessive leaps
- Polyphony interspersed with homophony
- 14 masses (one of which is a Requiem)– mostly parody
- 175 chansons, 10 Magnificats, 1 passion
- Representative – Languir me fais
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John Taverner
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- C.A. 1490-1543, England, Early Renaissance
- Florid Polyphony
- At least 8 masses
- 2 communion services
- Secular part songs
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1492
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Columbus and global spread of the Printing Press
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Cristóbal de Morales
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- 1500 – 1553
- Spanish Renaissance
- 25 Masses, 18 Magnificats
- 91 Motets
- 5 secular
- Representative – Missa L’homme armé
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Jacques (Jacob or Jakob) Arcadelt
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- CA. 1504 – 1568
- 3 masses, 24 motets, 2 spiritual chansons
- 1 Magnificat, 3 sets of lamentations
- 125 secular chansons, over 200 madrigals
- Representative
- Parody Mass – Missa Noe, noe (based on motet by Mouton)
- Madrigal – “Il Bianco”
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1509-1547
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Henry VIII rules England
Composers: Tallis, Tompkins, Gibbons, Byrd, Wilbye
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Thomas Tallis
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- CA. 1510-1585
- England, Renaissance, “Father of English Cathedral Music”
- 47 Latin sacred works
- 17 English services
- 24 Sacred works in English
- 4 Secular part songs
- Representative: If Ye Love Me
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Cipriano de Rore
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- CA. 1516-1565
- Flemish Renaissance
- 51 extant Motets, 5 masses, 2 Magnificats
- 107 madrigals (many 2nd stage), 4 Chansons
- Representative: Ave Regina
