Renaissance II Flashcards
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Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
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- CA. 1525-1594
- Italian
- 250 motets, 105 masses (1/2 are parody)
- 2 books madrigals
- 2 books Madrigalia Spiritulia (smaller liturgical works, offertories)
- Representative – Pope Marcellus Mass – saved polyphony
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Orlando (Roland) Di Lasso (De Lassus)
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- 1532 – 1599 Flemish Renaissance
- 50+ masses, 500+ motets, 100 Magnificats 13 settings of Nunc Dimittis
- 150 chansons, 150 madrigals, 90+ German lieder
- Representative: Bon jour mon Coeur
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William Byrd
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- 1540 – 1623 English Renaissance Major Composer
- Imitative Polyphony - 6ths and 3rds
- 185 sacred works to Latin texts
- 200 sacred and secular English works
- Representative: Ave Verum Corpus
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1545-1563
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Council of Trent (Counter Reformation)
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Tomás Luis De Victoria
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- 1549 – 1611, Spanish Renaissance
- 20 Masses (15 Parody)
- 16 Magnificats, 2 Polychoral Magnificats
- 52 motets
- Representative: O magnum mysterium
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Orazio Vecchi
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- 1550 – 1605 Italian
- 1 book of masses, one separate mass, Missa Julia, 4 books of motets
- 1 set of Lamentations, 1 Magnificat, 2 books of madrigals
- 4 books of Canzonets
- Representative: Mottetti a otto voci
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Luca Marenzio
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- 1553 – 1599, Italian
- 17 books of madrigals (over 200), 75 motets
- Cycle for the Liturgical year
- Text painting – Explored all devices of his time
- A number of his madrigals appeared in Yonge’s Musica Transalpina of 1588
- Influence on English madrigal
- Representative: Solo e pensoso
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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
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- 1554 – 1609 Italian Renaissance
- 17 books of sacred music
- Mostly combination of masses and motets, Magnificat, Psalms
- 10 books of secular vocal music
- Madrigals and lighter forms, canzonet and balletti
- Representative: Amor vittorioso (“Victorious love”)
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Giovanni Gabrieli
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- 1557 – 1612, Venice, Polychoral, Nephew of Andrea
- 7 mass movements, 94 motets
- 32 madrigals and related vocal genres
- Symphonie Sacre – landmark of early Baroque
- Representative: O Magnum Mysterium
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Thomas Morley
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- 1557 – 1602
- English Renaissance, composer and music publisher
- 9 Latin Motets and 3 traditional Anglican services
- 1 Burial service, 5 anthems
- 100 madrigals, canzonets and ballets
- Representative: Now Is The Month of Maying
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1558-1603
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Elizabeth I rules England
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Lodovico (Da) Viadana
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- 1560 – 1627 Italian, transitional
- Early (16th cent.) – 4-5 pt. with opt. BC
- Masses – 1 book + others pub. separately
- 1 Requiem, 22 books motets 1 Set Lamentations
- 2 books of canzonets
- Late (17th cent.) - 100 Concerti Eccleseastici
- 1-4 pt. w. BC acc. – new genre
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Carlo Gesualdo
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- CA. ?1561 – 1613 Italian, Renaissance/Baroque - Strong use of dissonance
- 70 motets
- Sacrea Cantiones – 3 unfinished were completed by Stravinsky
- 80 madrigals
- Books 5-7 are 3rd-stage: Book V – 21,
- Book VI – 23, Book VII – 18, and Book VIII – 2
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Hans Leo Hassler
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- 1562 - 1612
- German, Late Renaissance/Early Baroque
- Studied with Andrea Gabrieli in Venice
- 9 masses, 120 Latin motets, 95 German motets
- 25 Italian canzonets and balletos, 50 German lieder
- Representative: Missa Secunda
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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- 1562 – 1621 Flemish Renaissance (Transitional)
- 153 Calvinist Psalms – 5 voice
- 39 motets, 37 of them published as Cantiones sacrae
- 33 Chansons
- 19 Italian Madrigals
- Representative: Hodie Christus natus est
