1500s Flashcards
(13 cards)
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The Parisian chanson
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- homorhythmic
- simpler harmony
- melody typically sits in uppermost voice
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The Italian madrigal
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- 3 or more voices
- mostly secular texts
- earlier madrigals (1530s and ’40s) were dominated by chordal textures, but contrapuntal writing prevailed after this period
- through-composed
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The villanelle
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- several of these sub-genres emphasized chordal texture
- little or no imitation
- often 3 voices
- strophic
- mostly syllabic
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German Tenorlied
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- “secular cantus firmus genre”
- typically incorporated a well-known tune in the tenor or other voice
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Meistersinger guilds
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- members were not pro musicians but tradesmen and craftsmen who created societies and schools throughout Germany to cultivate music, poetry, and singing
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Songs for the Meistersinger guilds
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- often bar form
- performed by voice alone; no accompaniment
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Villancico
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- principle genre of song in Spain during the Renaissance
- term first used at the end of the 1400s to identify the poetic form equal to the French virelai (AbbaA)
- similar to the frittola in that the melody sits in the uppermost voice
- Luis Milán’s “El Maestro” is our earliest music to have any tempo indicators marked, as well as the first music written for the vihuela (a guitar-like instrument)
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England
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1560s: the Italian madrigal was adopted
1560s and 1570s: the English were infatuated with all things Italian
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Mannerism
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- second half of 1500s
- term from art history that designates a style that incorporates distortion, exaggeration, and unsettling juxtaposition for dramatic effect
- characterized by extreme dissonance, unusual harmonic progressions, and exaggerated word-painting
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Antecedent
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Phrases that move from tonic to dominant
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Consequent
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Phrases that move from dominant to tonic
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Binary form
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Two reprises together
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Anti-madrigal
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- one that intentionally adopts a lowbrow approach to madrigal poetry
