The Renaissance Flashcards
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Humanism
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- emerged as a guiding principle for scholars during the Renaissance
- Renaissance humanists focused on reviving ancient Greek and Roman works and applying the principles of these works to modern issues
2
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Scholastic model –> Studia Humanitatis
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Scholastic Model
- Liberal Arts
- Quadrivium
- Geometry
- Arithmetic
- Astronomy
- Music
- Trivium
- Grammar
- Dialectic
- Rhetoric
- Quadrivium
Studia Humanitatis
- History
- Poetry
- Moral
- Philosophy
- Grammar
- Rhetoric
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System of Seven Liberal Arts
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- music was studied as a science, as a system of ratios that gave rise to musical intervals, and through them the modes on which early music was based
- Celestial harmony that governed the cosmos and that the human was tuned to the same ratios as this celestial harmony
- music meant to mimic the harmony of the spheres, bringing humans closer to the universe (God)
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Alliance between Rhetoric and Poetry
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- to shift focus of music from cosmic harmony to human emotions
5
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Motet
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- a sacred, Christian, non-liturgical polyphonic work, which usually uses a Latin text on a sacred topic
6
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Imitative Polyphony
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- a texture in which melodies are repeated in close succession in different, independently moving voices
- built on points of imitation
7
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Points of Imitation
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- separate instances in which a melody enters in one voice and is repeated in the others
8
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Varietas
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Composer should vary the music by:
- alternating the texture frequently
- introducing new melodies throughout
9
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Paired Imitation
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- two voices sing music together
- then another pair of voices imitates what the first two voices sang
10
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Catholic Music and the Counter-Reformation
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- throughout first half of 16th century the music of Josquin encountered opposition for its over-complicated imitative style
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Counter-Reformation:
- had its strongest repercussions during a meeting of the Council of Trent (a group of church leaders assembled to lead the Counter-Reformation) in 1562
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Counter-Reformation
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- the church music installed by the Counter-Reformation retained some polyphonic features while increasing the use of homophonic passages and centering on the audibility of the text
12
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Madrigal
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- a secular polyphonic genre written in the vernacular languages of the lands in which it was composed
- relatively short, usually unaccompanied composition to be sung one singer to a part
13
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Madrigal: word-painting
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- word-painting is a musical gesture that allows the composer to use music to mimic the content of the text
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Girolamo Mei’s letter to Vincenzo Galilei
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- the theorist complains that modern polyphony, such as is heard in “Piagn’e sospira” cannot have the same effects on the soul as could ancient music
- confusion arises when one hears a multitude of voices simultaneously
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Monody
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- emerged to describe this new style of solo singing
- has a homophonic texture in which a voice sings in a speechlike manner over a continuous bass line, a basso continuo
