secular songs and nationle styles of 16th Flashcards

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music printing in the 1501

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boosted the music economy,

prior music was moslty performace now it can also be sold as commodity

music served as a social glue

friends and family could enjoy together.

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signaficant national genres

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spanish villancico, ittalian forottola
and new kind of french chanson

all simple strophic, syllabic and homophonic, easily singable and so suitable for amatuer peroformers.

italian madrigals

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italain national styles

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frottola and lauda
>both are strophic

> frottola is composed and sung for entertainment in courts

> lauda performed at gatherings of the faithful ,religious and devotional

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italy: other types of light secular songs

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villanella: peasant song for three voices, homophonic strophic piece
>mimicked the madrigals

villancico: composed for aristocracy,
short, strophic and syllabic, homophonic

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juan del encina

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spanish
leading composer of villancicos

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petrarch

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italian composer sparked a movement during which his sonntes and others poems were analyzed, disussed, edited and imitated

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early madrigals of the 16th

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they turned to petrach for their texts
its popularity dominated the secular music

settings of a short poem rather fixed patterns of repettition.

in contrast to frottola, marigal poetry was artful and elevated tone

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leading composer of the 16th italian madrigal

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Jacques Arcadelt

Church musicians
transferred skills in sacred polyphony to writing secular madrigals

The famous madrigal IL BIANCO E DOLCE CINGO contrasts the swans literal death with his own figurative death

He used imitation in the voices, four voices, same melodic figures to accentuate repetition

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another madrigal composer

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cipriano de rore
flemish by birth
wowrked in italy

he worked with the sense and feeling of the poem

divided the ensemble into higher and lower gropuings to distinguish subtly between the lovers voices as they are about to apart

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chromatisim

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theorists in the mid 16th embraced
pointing to chromatic and enharmonic tetrachords discussed by greek writers

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carlo gusaldo

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infuenced by vinentio,
assosiated with chromaticsm at the end of the century

he was a murderer, killed his wife

dramatizes and intensifies the anthitese in the poetry by sudden ccontrast indiatonic and chromatic passages

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claudio monteverdi

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wrote 8 books of madrigals
smooth combination of homophonic and contrapuntal writing

free use of chromatisici mand dissoance, sensetive to sound and meaning of text

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english madrigal composers

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thomas morely
thomas weelkes

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morely

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wrote canzonets and ballets as well as madrigals all based on italian models.

composed his ballet SING WE AND CHANT IT
in imitation of giovanni giacomo gastoldi songs

dance like meter
elements of its text,
harmony
melody
rhythm

wrote 25 other madrigals based on other songs.

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the lute song 1600

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personal genre than the madrigal
overall mode with much less words
printer in one books
the lute part is in tablature which is a notation system that tell. which string to pluck

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16
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john dowland 1563-1626

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flow my tears from his second book of ayres
form of processional dance pavane, italian

three repeated section
aabbcC pattern

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the role of instruments in 16th

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doubled and even sometimes replaced voices in sacred and secular pplyphonic

the lowest part of madrigal or chanson was reduced for a lute or board

accompaniment of the melody performed by the soloist