Renaissance Music

Question 0

Art in Renaissance

Answer 0

• Madonna and Child, Paolo Veneziano 1354
  
  • flat
  • child looks adult-like
  • distant and formal presentation
  • emphasis on divinity
• Leonardo da Vinci Madonna and Child
  
  • realistic in action and appearance (age)
  • depth and dimension
  • imitation of real life
• Michelozzo di Bartolommeo - San Marco, Florence 1440
  
  • supports visible –> audible structure in music
    
    • not hidden like flying buttresses

Question 1

The Renaissance

Answer 1

• rapid economic development

- students learned by imitation, rather than the previous memorization

Question 2

Music in Renaissance

Answer 2

Music:

• empirical observation replaces authority
  
  • Tinctoris (1477): evaluated compositions by listening to them
  • Glarean (1547): expanded Church modes by four
    
    • Aeolian/Hypoaeolian
    • Ionian/Hypoionian
• change in compositional practice
  
  • simultaneous somposition replaces successive composition (point of imitation)
• rise of printing
  
  • 1501: first music print using moveable type (triple impression)
  • 1528: first single-impression music print
  • partbooks
• wide-scale use of white mensural notation
• music considered essential to the education of a nobleman or noblewoman

Question 3

John Dunstable

Answer 3

• Quam Pulcra Es (1420)
  
  • Motet
    - parallel 3rds and 6ths
  • music and text phrases align
  • homophonic style
  • panconsonance