Test #2 Flashcards
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Ecco La Primavera (behold spring)
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- Landini, Middle Ages (ma)
- Ecco La Primavera
- Ballata (It. Fixed form)
- m: features smooth melodic lines, syllabic setting of text that rhymes
h: Landini known for the “Landini Cadence”, interval between bottom and top part is a major 6th, upper voice moves down, whole tone, leaps up 3rd, both parts resolve down to an octave
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Sumer is Icumen In
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- Anonymous, Middle Ages (ma)
- Sumer is Icumen in
- Rota (type of canon)
- m: the 2 lower parts (rondellus) create counterpoint/back-drop by exchanging phrases
h: the oldest canon in western music
3
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Estampie
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- Anonymous, Middle Ages (ma)
- Estampie
- instrumental (dance?) music
- h: instrumental music of the 1300s used fiddle, sackbut, recorder, hurry curdy
m: triple meter and may have involved stomping by performer for audience
4
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Quam Pulchra Es (how beautiful)
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- Dunstable, Early Renaissance (er)
- Quam Pulchra es
- motet with faburden technique
- h: dunstable was astronomer, astrologer and mathematician
m: emphasis on root/1st inversion triads, sounds empty at times due to 8ves, open 5ths
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Christ Redemptorem Omnium (Christ redeemer of all)
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- Dufay,ER
- christe redemptorem omnium
- chant with fauxbourdon technique
- h: was a member of the “Burgundian School” (Franco-Flemish) of composers
m: alternates sections of old 6c plain chant melody with polyphonic fauxbourdon sections
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Nuper Rosarum Flores
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- Josquin, LR
- Nuper Rosarum Flores (Recently Roses Came)
- Motet, ruled by specific numbers and proportions
4.
h: written for consecration of Florence Cathedral, 1436.
m: 4 upper parts: motets and triplum “pairs” begin with florid duet: 4 stanzas, 7 lines each
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Ave Maria… Virgo Serena
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- Josquin, LR
- Ave Maria… Virgo Serena (Hail Mary… Serene Virgin)
- contrapuntal motet with block chords and word painting
- h: born in Belgium, worked in Italy, incl. at Vatican Chapel
m: at opening: “point of pervading/ imitation”, sound like mini canons @ 8ve, unison
periodic entries: voices enter consecutively, at same time interval - overlapping
8
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“Gloria” from Missa “Se la Face ay Pale”
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- Dufay, ER
- “Gloria” from Missa “Se la Face Ay Pale”
- Cyclic mass, chanson based
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“Kyrie” from Missa “Prolationum”
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- Ockeghem
- “Kyrie” from Missa “Prolationum
- Canonic mass, unified by use of canons/meters
- h: best known for his 4-part mass of the prolations
m: S+A, T+B sing same pitches but in different prolations (meters)
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“Kyrie” from Missa “Pange Lingua”
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- Josquin, LR
- “Kyrie” from Missa “Pange Lingua”
- paraphrase mass, chant based
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m: Joaquin quotes melodic “ideas”- here: 6 phrases of chant and elaborates on them
m: distributes phrases across consecutive sections to create (starting) “points” of imitation
11
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Morir No Puo (my heart cannot die)
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- Casulana, LR
- Morir no puo (my heart cannot die)
- madrigal with word painting
- h: first female to compose 3 books of 66 madrigals and get them printed and published
m: gender neutral text with subtle word painting via alternation of homophonic and polyphonic textures, chromaticism
12
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Matona Mia Cara
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- Di Lasso, LR/B
- Matona mia Cara
- Strophic “Villanella” with refrain
- m: unusually, the piece does not have counterpoint
m: text ridicules German Speaking soldier crudely serenading Italian lady- nonsense syllables
13
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Moro Lasso (I die, alas)
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- Gesualdo, LR/B
- Moro Lasso (I die alas)
- madrigal, in mannerism style
- h: murdered wife and lover gruesomely, not charged due to aristocratic status
m: opens with 4 descending chromatic chords - harmonies, voice-leading
14
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As Vesta was … descending
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- Weelkes
- As Vesta was … descending
- madrigal with word painting
- h: organist at anglican churches, alcoholic
m: utilizes word painting and is through composed
15
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Flow my Tears
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- Dowland, LR/B
- Flow my tears
- lute song with word painting
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m: based on tune of Lachrymae
m: based on a dance like many of Dowlands pieces, here the pavan.
