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Renaissance
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An age when art and culture flourishes; art by paintings, music, and dance, and culture by art. It was an age of science and new ideas "rebirth of civilization"
wanted to return to the glory of rome |
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paraphrase
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changing plainchants and embellishing them to make them flow better or simply to make them sound nicer
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sonority
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chords created when the chords lined up
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homophony
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chordal structure, vertically lining up
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hymn
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short tune with many stanzas, always ended with "amen"
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chanson
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simpler style of music, took over motet
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Mass
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made up into 5 parts:
1) Kyrie- prayer 2) Gloria- hymn 3) Credo-beliefs 4) Sanctus-hymn 5) Angus Dei-prayer |
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imitative texture
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when one line of music is no more important than another and they're played seperately but are a reflection of ideals and balance- one starts a motive, hte others all follow
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a capella
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sung, w/o music
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point of imitation
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the simple motive being repeated over and over and over
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imitative texture
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when one voice starts a motive and the rest of the voices repeat it over and over
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expression
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music's power to recreate certain human emotions
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declamation
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when a certian musical passage is sung rhythmically and melodically as if it were being spoken
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word painting
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musical illustration of the text (ex: the word "down" may be a descending scale and the word "up" an ascending one)
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madrigal
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1 stanza love poem, used homophony, rhythm free, one person to a part, used in intimate settings, secular. RAPID TURNOVER OF IDEAS
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Italian madrigal
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about normal things, like relationships, heartbreak, stories
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English madrigal
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about how wonderful the queen is. she paid people to write madrigals about her, and it caught on in england very quickly because of her love for them. "triumphs of Oriana" - collection of madrigals about the queen
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instrumental music
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came into the light towards the end of the renaissance, started moving away from mostly vocal music with instrumental backing to all instrumental.
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instruments during the renaissance
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harpsichord, lute, and violin (major 3)
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Renaissance Dance
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most widespread of instrumental genres. usually went like this: A,A,B,B,C,C,D...to ensure people had two chances to get the steps right each time.
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pavane
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a solemn dance in duple meter, with the participants stepping and stopping formally.
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galliard
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usually paired with the pavane, it is simpler and less formal. triple meter.
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jig
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term used loosely for any type of fast dance with a swing and lilt to it (like jazz)
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stylized dance
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making dance music more stylized and "artistic" instead of purely for dancing. even instrumental music is breaking away from its original purpose to become something altogether different.
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Guillaume Dufay
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renaissance composer who wrote polyphinic masses and embellished hymns
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Jospuin Desprez
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Frenchman who wrote awesome masses using imitation. "Pan Lingua Mass"
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Giovanni Palestrina
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Italian singer who wrote over a hundred masses. used vocal sonority and employed homophony. Revolutionized the mass and used imitation and homophony to the fullest
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William Byrd
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organisr and member of English disident Catholic monority and wrote masses for illegal and dangerous services held in barns and attics.
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Thomas Weelkes
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contributed to the triumphs of oriana though he was never famous in his own day. clear melodies and simple rhythms.
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what was the 16th century motet and how did it impact the composers of its time?
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relatively short compositions in Latin made up of homophony and imitative polyphony. words religious, sometimes from bible itself. variety of text possibilities made 16th century composers able to convey religious messages through their music with more power than ever before.
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High Renaissance characteristics
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Imitative counterpoint and homophony. imitation- every phrase is equal, none dominates over the others. homophony focused on the vertical construction of chords rather than just an accidental formation of chords by imitative counterpoint. a capella also appears. rhythm is fluid, dynamics constant.
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