CLASS: Oct 8, 2018

Question 1

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

How was the life and career of Josquin different from his medieval predecessors?

Answer 1

• He travelled
  
  • So he could work
  • Not just for spirit
• Was pulled place to place
• 21st Century equivalent:
  
  • Like an independant contractor, but hugely successful
  • Steady employers place to place
  • Defintley would have had a record deal
  • Would work for Chicago Symphony, then San Francisco, the New York Philharmonic. Pulled from place to place.

Question 2

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

Describe the musical characteristics of late 15th-century or early 16th-century music (i.e. Josquin’s style)

Answer 2

• Imitation
• Paired voices
• Imitative Polyphony: Alternates Imitation with Homophonic
  
  • Homophony: All voices have same rhythms.
    
    • Homophony is a type of polyphony
  • Polyphony: Anything with multiple voices
• Dense Counterpoint

Question 3

Answer 3

• TRIPLE IMPRESSION PRINTING
  
  • Very first music prints
  • Harmonices Odhecaton
  • By Ottaviano Petrucci
  • LOCATION: Venice, 1501 (associate Venice with Triple Impression)
  • Clean and Tidy, Beauitful
    
    • First time through, just printing the lines, staves
    • Second time, all the notes
    • Third time, all the other things, letters, composr name, ect
    • VERY EXPENSIVE and TIME CONSUMING
    • No bar lines
  • Coffee Table book for the wealthy patrons of the arts to have in their collection. Not something musicians usually owned.

Question 4

Answer 4

• Choirbook Format
  
  • Comes from older manifestations (manuscript, bound copies, HUGE) of this format that was big enough for a choir of 7-8 people to look at. Notation was big too.
  • These modern ones were smaller
  • Individual parts all on one page

Question 5

Answer 5

• Considering the market, Petrucci printed single edition prints of Josquin.

Question 6

Answer 6

• Each page of music was:
  
  • Carved into wood
  • Engraved into metal
• Muliple versions of the engraving with certain aspects of the music
• Took up a lot of space

Question 7

Answer 7

Question 8

Answer 8

• Printing Press
  
  • Luther and all the movements of this time wouldn’t have happened without the Printing Press
  • Very important in getting the message out
• MOVABLE TYPE
  
  • Used to print a page of text
  • More efficient than wood block or metal
    
    • Less time
    • More efficient from materials
  • Downside
    
    • Prints aren’t the same

Question 9

Answer 9

• 1520s
• Little pieces of notation to piece together
• They were experimenting with different numbers of lines
• 5 is the most popular and the one that prevails

Question 10

Answer 10

SINGLE IMPRESSION PRINTING

• Put together single impression printing
• WHO: Pierre Attaingnant
• WHERE: Paris
• This is what a page would look like
• Looks very different that wood carving
• HARDER to read. Not as clean. Staff lines don’t line up exactly.
• Sometimes it messed up the print. Upside down. Or wrong place.
• MUCH CHEAPER and EFFICIENT
  
  • Books musicians and merchant class people can buy.
  • Leads to PARTBOOK FORMAT

Question 11

20:00

Partbook

Single Impression led to partbook format.