Unit 4: Keyboard Music Flashcards
Many works were composed for “_,” or instrumental ensembles
Consorts of instruments
Ensembles comprising instruments from one family were referred to as a “” while mixed combinations of instruments were referred to as “.”
- whole consort
- broken consorts
The _, a Renaissance family of bowed string instruments of various sizes.
Consort of viols
The earliest notated music for keyboard dates back to 1325 and is found int the _
Robertsbridge Codex
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
- close to 300 works in the collection
- variety of styles
- English keyboard composers of the time are represented
- idiomatic approach to keyboard writing
- style of writing often virtuosic
- fanciful titles
What styles are included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book?
- dances
- fantasias
- preludes
- arrangements if songs and madrigals
- variations
Which English compose a of the time were represented in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book?
- William Byrd
- John Bull
- Thomas Morley
- Giles Farnaby
How was the style of writing in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book often virtuosic?
- rapid scale passages
- ornamentation
- many novel figurations
What are some fanciful titles in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book?
- The Carmen’s Whistle (William Byrd)
- The King’s Hunt (John Bull)
- The Ghost (William Byrd)
variations
- work based on statement of melody (theme) followed by series of transformations (variations)
- changes made to melody, harmony, or rhythm
harpsichord
- keyboard instrument
- sound generated by smal quills inside instrument that pluck string
- often had two manuals (sets of keys)
virginal
- generic term used for all plucked keyboard instruments in England
- generally smaller and ligher than harpsichord
- some could be paced on tale top or held in the player’s lap
idiomatic writing
- compositional style that highlights unique technical capabilities of an instruments
- opposite of “generic”
- developed in late Renaissance and Baroque eras
