Test #1 (Week 2) Flashcards
(25 cards)
What are two concepts that became popular in the 14th Century?
- individualism: composers became less anonymous,
2. regionalism: Vernacular poetry replaced Latin poetry, more and more compositions written in composer’s native tongue
Describe “ars nova”
“new art;” has became a label for much of 14th Century French music in general; title of a treatise written around 1320 and attributed to theorist-composer Phillipe de Vitry
Who unhappily acknowledged the influence of ars nova?
Pope John XXII
What was the chief characteristic of Ars Nova?
rhythmic flexibility
What are some of the issues related to rhythmic flexibility
- use of red ink to make otherwise perfect rhythmic values imperfect
- legitimization of duple meter as fully equal to triple
Describe “tempus”
- relationship of breve to semibreve
- 3 semibreve to each breve when perfect, 2 when imperfect
Describe “prolatio”
- relationship of semibreve to minum
- perfect (major) there are 3 semibreve to each minum, 2 when imperfect (minor)
What was the name of the satirical allegory which commented on the dangers of corrupt and incompetent government ministers
Le Roman de Fauvel
What were the 3 formes fixes?
- Ballade (3 strophes of 7 or 8 lines)
- Virelai (typically set in syllabic fashion)
- Rondeau (8 lines of text set to music)
What was the most important variety of secular song in France in the 14th Century?
formes fixes
What was the term for the practice of writing works as ingenious puzzles?
Ars Subitilior
What was the term for the “Italian Ars Nova?”
Trancento
What were the 3 secular vocal genres?
- Ballata
- Madrigal
- Caccia
Describe “contenance angloise”
- term coined by Martin le Franc
- dominated by thirds, fifths and sixths
- also called panconsonance
In which time period did composing in a new musical style (with consonances) become popular?
Renaissance (after Medieval period)
What was the new term for fixed melody in the Renaissance?
cantus firmus
What is the term when 4-5 voice sections are successively varied (variations on the same theme?)
isomelic structure
Define isorhythmic
structural device based on a fixed rhythmic and melodic pattern that is repeated at least once over the course of the work
What is the term for the rhythmic pattern of an isometric tenor?
Talea
Define “color”
The melodic pattern in an isomelic work
What is the term for the rhythmic pulse of the music?
Tactus
What is pervading imitation?
Musical ideas are stated imitatively in all voices throughout an entire work or section of a work
What is the term for a series of unrelated thematic ideas?
Paratactic form
What is the point of imitation?
The exact moment when the section of imitation starts
