Renaissance Study Guide Flashcards
When was the word Madrigal first used in print?
1530
When did black-note notation and common time become standard?
1540
Antoine Busnois
1430-1492
Gilles Binchois
1400-1460
Philippe de Vitry dates
1291-1361
Guillaume de Machaut dates
1300-1377
Trecento
1300s; Florence
Francesco Landini dates
1335-1397
John Dunstaple dates
1390-1453
Quattrocento
1400s; Venice
Johannes Tinctoris dates
1435-1511
Agricola Dates
1446-1506
Compere Dates
1450-1518
Josquin dates
1450-1521
Obrecht Dates
1457-1505
Mouton Dates
1459-1522
De La Rue Dates
1460-1518
Janequin dates
1485-1560
Sermisy dates
1490-1544
Adrian Willaert dates
1490-1562
Hans Sachs dates
1494-1576
John Taverner dates
1495-1545
Cristobal de Morales dates
1500-1553
Nicholas Gombert dates
1500-1556
Thomas Tallis dates
1505-1585
Clemens non Papa dates
1510-1556
Rore (dates)
1516-1565
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Dates
1525-1594
Claude Le Jeune dates
1525-1600
Francisco Guerrero dates
1527-1599
Madrigals made it to England around when?
1530s
Orlando di Lasso dates
1532-1594
Andreas Gabrilie dates
1533-1585 Venice
Giaches de Wert dates
1535-1596
William Byrd’s dates
1540-1623
Tomas Luis de Victoria dates
1548-1611
Orazio Vecchi dates/location
1550-1605 Rome
Luca Marenzio dates
1553-1599
Giovanni Gabrieli dates
1556-1612 Venice
Thomas Morley dates
1557-1603
Carlo Gesualdo dates
1560-1613
Claudio Monteverdi dates
1567-1643
John Wilbye dates
1574-1638
Thomas Weelkes dates
1575-1623
Catholic censorship was at its height when?
16th century
Difference in major and minor becomes clear when?
16th century
polyphony came into style when?
after 1150
When does the Mass begin to become a more important musical form?
After 1450
When did composers begin varying texture for textual emphasis?
after 1450
Most important court, mid 1400s
Burgundy
When were rhythmic modes codified?
ca 1250
Motives as compositional tools introduced when?
ca. 1500
What element of music first begins to become more important after 1450?
changes in texture
Oldest example of fauxbourdon
Dufay’s Missa Sancti Jacobi
When did English and continental style achieve blend?
end of the 1400s
After 1450, what musical element was most important?
harmony
In the 1300s, compare French and Italian music
Italian music is simpler
Solage dates
late 1300s
Parisian chanson separated from NTL when?
late 1520s
When did the idea of an integrated mass first come into being
mid to late 1400s
Timeline for primary note values
pre 1550–semibreve pulse 1550-1600 semibreve pulse more subdivisions; 1580-1650 minim pulses more common, slower over-all beats
Which FF was more popular later in the period?
Rondeau
Major development of Middle Ages
Trend toward organized, measured rhythm; trend toward basing harmony on thirds, not perfect sounds; Reaching toward larger-scale forms/structures
What was the distinguishing feature of polyphony after 1450?
variety, not clarity
Mannered Notation
notation that reflects the meaning of text or music–heart shaped, unfilled notes for eyes, etc.
Rondeau Quatrain form
ABCDabABabcdABCD Capital = refrain, lower = strophe text; letters = music
Rondeau Cinquain form
ABCDEabcABCabcdeABCDE
Old Virelai
I; II; II (new text); I (new text); I (original text)
New Virelai
Bergerette
Bergerette
Virelai with one stanza
Ballade
3 stanzas, later 1 or 2; continuing scheme; ababcdE
Ballade Style
Vocal top line supported by subordinate, instrumental tenor and contratenor (applies to forms other than ballades, too)
canto di glosso
singing with embellishments
Migrant Cantus Firmus
Originally English style; use of CF in multiple voice parts, sometimes simultaneously
Gymel
temporarily dividing one voice part into two
Major prolation
triple subdivision (older style)
Minor prolation
duple subdivision
Tempus
beats
Tempu Perfectum
three beats
Tempus Imperfectum
two beats
Prolatio
subdivisions
Perfectum/Major
nine/eight
Perfectum/Minor
three/four
Imperfectum/Major
six/eight
Imprefectum/Minor
two/four
Tractulus
separators dot; clarified which notes were part of a group
Parole
textual stress of individual syllables
Contrafactum
the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music
Urtext
alters only the most glaring errors from the original manuscript
solmization
the process of assigning names to notes according to their position in a hexachord
hexachord
a scalar sequence of six notes whose intervallic arrangement is fixed
the gamut
repetition of hexachords to cover G2 to E5; “musica recta”
mutation
moving from one hexachord to another; only when absolutely necessary, and rarely between hard and soft hexachords
opposite of musica ficta; preferred over musica ficta
musica recta
molle
soft hexachord
causa necessitatis
perfect consonances
causa pulchritudinis
imperfect consonances
coniuncta
transposing recta hexachords to alien pitches or unaccustomed places
disiuncta
violent transition from one hexachord to another where no mutation is possible
faburden
improvised fauxbourdon
musica reservata
relaxing of certain harmonic rules for textual expressive purposes; private performances for “refined ears”; soft and discreet
musica comuna
harmonic rules trump textual expression; public places for “ordinary ears”
passaggi
ornamental runs and turns; originally improvisatory, but later written out
chitarrone
large, bass lute
diminuzioni
passaggi; ornamenting a solo song with diminution
Post-Tridentine
after the Council of Trent
Recover
follow a leap with a step in the opposite direction
Syncope dissonance
dissonance created by syncopation in one or more voices against non-syncopationin one or more voices; England, turn of 1400s
Franconian law “Ars cantus mensurabilis”
accented beats should be consonant (early Renaissance)
Substitution Masses
Loyset Compere–motets would replace certain Mass movements
alternatim practice
alternating polyphony with plainsong and/or organ music in a Mass setting
frottola
3 or 4 voices; upper voice melody; instrumental accompaniment?; abba ripresa and cdcdda stanza (or cdcddeea); related to ballata
chace (3)
early term for canon; began in France, spread elsewhere; used in motets
antiquated term for virelai
chanson balladee
virelai
refrain / couplet (new music, new text) / epilog (music of refrain with new text) / refrain
triplum
instrumental part above the cantus
contratenor (Machaut)
instrumental part below the cantus
tenor (Machaut)
instrumental part accompanying a single voice (cantus)
cantus (Machaut)
vocal solo line accompanied by an instrument (tenor)
madrigale
2 or 3 voice vocal songs of the 1300s in Italy
ritornello
returning section in contrasting rhythm
Subdivisions were also known as (2)
prolations or manners of performance
larger phrases aka “close”
clausula
note against note style; lower voice at same speed as upper part
discantus or discant
phrases in discant style
discant clausulae
Originally a processional, this became a generic term for all polyphonic music
conductus
Clausula became known as…
puntus organi (phrase organ point)
What word came to replace “duplum” as a voice part?
Motetus
Common Cadence early-middle Renaissance
Under-third
Common cadences of late Medieval/early Renaissance
Under third, Burgundian, Phrygian
TTLD over V-I, may include crossing parts with one leaping up an octave
Under-third
Two different but simultaneous leading tones (B and E to C and F in F)
Burgundian
Bass down by half step, treble up by whole step
Phrygian
Explain key signature discrepancies
Efficiency/unnecessary (due to notes in the part), not transposition
Chansonniers
large, ornate choir books
Odhecaton
first book of polyphonic music printed with movable type
discant settings
note-against-note harmonizations of a plainchant
chanson style
treble-dominated, ornamented
parody mass
includes more than one voice of the polyphonic model on which it is based
Carols (in the 1300s)
secular songs of a popular character; refrain with stanzas
talea
rhythmic pattern
color
pitch pattern
villanelle/villanesche (4)
pop songs for the masses; strophic; 3-parts; chordal
villotta/e
late 15th/early 16th century polyphonic arrangements of street songs and pop tunes
balletti
dance songs by Gastoldi
Tenorlieder
lied with melody first stated in the tenor
Meistersingers
amateur musicians modeled on medieval Minnesingers; strict rules, bar forms
villancico
courtly genre similar to frottola, but with freer rhythms; aB cd cd aB (B = same text and music)
romances
long, narrative poems of many strophes
ensalada (3)
through-composed; text painting; multiple sources of text in one composition
Eton Choirbook
English music, turn of 1500s, antiphons and magnificats
Sarum
English chants
anthem
polyphonic setting of a religious text in English; may also apply to texts in Latin
strambotti
poems in ottava rima; improvised music; self-accompanied on strings
ottava rima
Poetic rhyme scheme abababcc or abababab
lira da braccio
common chordal instrument for accompanying one’s own singing
barzelletta
represa (four line refrain), six-line stanza, coda (AB+x)
odes
quatrains; classic poetry
capitoli
aba bcb cdc…
Simple tune, sacred, similar to folk/pop music
Laude
falsobordone
constant use of third and fifth (rather than third and sixth in fauxbourdon)
code-note
in SCA, it is a single note that absolutely requires musica ficta, and thus sends the entire composition down a road of chromaticism
Musica Nova
Willaert’s collection of motets and madrigals
Characteristics of mid-Renaissance French Chanson
Mostly a3, some a4 (later); French text
Three forms of Rondeaux
quatrain, cinquain, sixain
Characteristics of early 15th C. Sacred Music
Opening upper-voice duo
Primary musical language of Medieval/Renaissance transition
French
What category of music was most important in the 14th century?
Secular music
What category of music was most important in the early 15th century?
Secular music
What was Dufay’s most common form of chansons?
Rondeau
What compositional technique is noticeably absent from secular music in the early Renaissance?
Cantus Firmus
Describe the differences between English discant and Fauxbourdon
ED was originally improvisational, and is created by adding notes above the lowest part; FB was always written out, and built from the top voice down
How did FB affect other styles of music?
Composers sought to transfer its sonoroities to non-FB compositions