Unit III: Late Renaissance & Early Baroque Flashcards
What mass style did the Church adopt in the 1500s?
Parody mass
Netherlanders were influenced by what regions?
Italy, Southern Germany
How many voices were standard after 1550?
5-6
Gombert
- Madrid, Vienna, Brussels
- Pervasive imitation, points of imitation
- Smooth, continuous, few rests
Clemens
- Bruges
- Dutch psalm books (4) in 3 parts
- Clearer phrases than Gombert
- Word setting
Senfl
- Munich
- A Swiss
- Finished Isaac’s Choralis Constantinus
- Wrote for both churches
Willaert
- Netherlander in Italy
- Text and music!
- Maestro at St. Marks
- Polychoral style
- Trained others
- Church modes
Frottola style
4-voice, homorhythmic, syllabic, dance-like, secular, top melody
Frottola composers
Cara, Trombocino
Villancico
Spanish version of frottola
Polyphonic lauda
Sacred, nonliturgical version of frottola, with melody from a secular song
Most important secular genre of 16th century
Madrigal
Through-composed
Characteristic of madrigals; non-strophic, new music for each new line of poetry
Madrigal poets
Petrarch, Bembo, Tasso, Guarini
Earliest madrigals resembled what?
Frottola; but later the madrigal had more continuous and overlapping phrases than the frottola
Madrigalists in Florence
Verdelot, Pisano, Layolle
Madrigalists in Rome
Verdelot, Pisano, Festa
Madrigalists in Venice
Willaert, Arcadelt
Name Bembo’s two emotional categories derived from his study of Petrarch’s poetry.
Piacevolezza (pleasingness) and gravità (seriousness), often alternated for contrast.
Rore
Midcentury madrigalist; alternated textures, meter, and length of note values freely. Concerned with emotional details of text.
Name the three Netherlanders of the third generation of madrigalists.
Orlando di Lasso, Phillipe de Monte, and Giaches de Wert
Name the three Italians of the third generation of madrigalists.
Marenzio, Gesualdo, Monteverdi
De Monte
Vienna, Prague; 32 books of madrigals.
Di Lasso
Musical cosmopolitan, mastered every national form of his time. Highly sensitive to text. Turned almost entirely to sacred music later in life.
De Wert
Influenced by Rore; wide leaps, recitative-like declamation, and strong contrasts. Influenced Monteverdi.
Marenzio
5-part madrigals; musical depiction of feeling and visual details; his work the crowning achievement of the Italian madrigal.
Gesualdo
Chromaticism, intense emotional states
Monteverdi
Key transitional figure to early Baroque; eight books of madrigals show this evolution in style; late works foreshadow recitative; wrote out his vocal ornaments.
Villanella/Villanelle
Naples c. 1540, strophic form imitating popular song using parallel fifths; 3-voice homorhythm.
Canzonetta
Italy c. 1560; clear harmonies and distinct, even phrases, many repeats
Balletto
“Fa-la-la” refrains used; for dancing, with dance rhythms
What composers masters the non-madrigal polyphonic forms of the 1500s?
Gastoldi, Banchieri, Vecchi
Who was the first French printer? What year did he begin printing in Paris?
Attaignant, 1528
Parisian Chanson
Characterized by many repeated notes; 4-voice, light, fast, homorhythmic
Composers of Parisian Chansons
Sermisy, Jannequin
Composers of French chansons that were more contrapuntally complex than the Parisian chanson
Gombert, Manchicourt, Clemens, Crequillon, Le Jeune, Costeley, Mauduit
Air de cour
Dominant vocal form in France after 1580; a solo singer with lute accompaniment
Who attempted to write French poetry using classic Greek and Latin poetic meter?
Antoine de Baïf
Musique mesurée
A homophonic, multi-metered French style of music imitating the meter of class Greek and Latin poetry.
When did the Franco-Flemish contrapuntal style reach Germany?
The 1530’s
Lied
A German vernacular polyphonic song with melody in top voice OR tenor; eventually took on madrigal-like qualities.
Which German composers are known for combining German melodic material with Franco-Flemish counterpoint?
Isaac, Finch, Hofhaimer, Senfl
Quodlibet
A German medium; a ragged compendium of popular tunes juxtaposing texts for humor
Hans Leo Hassler
Greatest German composer in the latter 1500s; combined Italian finesse with German characteristics.
What book brought Italian part song to England in 1588?
Yonge’s Musica Transalpina
English madrigalists
Morley, Weelkes, Wilbye