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Exam 3 (ch. 13-24) Flashcards

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Who is Binchois?

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Burgundian composer

Secular music

3-part chansons

Known for beautiful melodies

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Who is John Dunstable?

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English

Came to Burgundy in 100 years war

Used 3rds, 6ths, panconsonance that influenced Burgundian composers

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Who is Dufay?

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Burgundian Composer

Sacred and secular music

4 part cantus firmus mass

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Who is Ockeghem?

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First generation composer

Head of French King’s chapel

Bass singer

Solved Missa prolationem

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Who is Josquin?

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Next generation composer

Specialist in expressive motets

Expressed emotional meaning of text

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Who is Isaac?

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From low country

Worked for Emperor Maximillion I

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Who is Sermisy?

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Composed Parisian chansons

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What is the date of the Renaissance?

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1400 to 1600

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Who was Luther?

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Wrote chorales

Encouraged music in the Lutheran church

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Who is Walther?

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Made simple chorale pieces into polyphonic pieces

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What is Imitative polyphony?

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All voices play an equal role in the texture, sections of homorhythm alternate with polyphony.

Structure and meaning of text guide composers

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What was common for instruments in the early Renaissance?

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Instrumentalists would play music originally intended for vocalists or improvise with vocalists

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What was typical for an instrumentalist during the late Renaissance?

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They played the first genres intended for instrumentalists

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What is a cyclic mass?

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4 or 5 voice texture

Imitative polyphony alternating homorhythm and chant-like melodies

Modal

Text is in the ordinary

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What is a Renaissance motet?

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A polyphonic setting of a sacred Latin text that is not part of the Mass Ordinary

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What is Frottola?

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Popular style in Italian courts 1470-1530

Light subject matter

Main tune in soprano

Homorhythmic

Basic harmonies

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What is a Madrigal?

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Single stanza

Emotional poem

Through-composed

Utilized word painting

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What is Parisian Chanson?

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Popular style

Strophic

Light-hearted text

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What is Basse danse?

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Stately

Gliding court dance

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What is Pavanne and galliard?

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Favorite dance pair

Led to Baroque suit

Slow and duple

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What is Fantasia?

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Early on was improvised

Later imitative polyphony

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What is a Prelude?

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A piece that introduces the main musical event

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What is a Canzona?

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Imitated the Parisian chanson

Often used long-short motive

Lively rhythms and light imitation

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What is Faburden?

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Singers improvised around a given chant

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What is pan-consonance?
Almost every note is apart of a triad
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What is a Rondellus?
Two or three voices engage in voice exchange or phrase exchange
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What is a Burden?
The refrain starts with an English carol that is repeated after each stanza
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What is broken consort?
A mixed ensemble of different types of instruments
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What is bas instruments?
Soft instruments Lute, harp or vielle
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What is the Cantus firmus Mass?
A cyclic Mass Each movement is connected by a single cantus firmus
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What is a consort?
An ensemble of all the same instruments in different ranges
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What is contrafactum?
Transformation if a piece from secular to sacred Or from sacred to secular
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What is a chorale?
A monophonic spiritual melody or religious folksong of the Lutheran church
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What are Hauts instruments?
Loud instruments Trumpets, sackbuts and shawms
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What is the song Lied?
German art song (pop song)
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What is moveable type?
Moveable metal cutouts of letters or musical signs Can be rearranged to make a new page of music and text
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What is Point of imitation?
A motive that is sung or played in turn by each voice or instrumental line
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What is a part book?
A book that has just one voice or instrumental part in it
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What is Single-impression printing?
All notes and text are lined up to be put on staff Requires only on pressing Could make many more copies of music faster
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What is the Soggetto cavato?
A cantus firmus extracted from the vowels of a name
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What is strophe plus refrain?
A common musical firm in which the strophe, or stanza is sung by a soloist while all the singers join in with the burden or refrain
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What is Tenorlied?
A polyphonic German song with preexisting tune placed in the tenor
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What does through-composed mean?
New music for every stanza of text
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What is strophic?
Same music repeated for each new stanza
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What is word painting?
Use of choral shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text
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What is the viol?
A six string instrument fretted and tune like the lute Bowed Available in treble, tenor and bass
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What is the Battle of Agincourt?
A carol Began with a burden Strophe and refrain
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What is Le contenance angloise?
Uses pan-consonance Syllabic
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What are the Burgundian lands?
Center of musical patronage John Dunstaple
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Who is Petrucci?
Printed the first book of polyphonic music using moveable type
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Who is Pierre Attaingnant?
A printer and bookseller living in the university quarter of the Left Bank Popularized single-impression printing
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What is the violin?
slightly younger than the viol 1520s in Italy No frets
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List the six instrumental genres of the Renaissance?
``` Arrangements Dances Prelude Ricercar Fantasia Variations ```
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Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Invented movable type
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What is humanism? How did it effect music? What names were involved?
Study of ancient texts and monuments with the aim of extracting a model for thinking and acting. Francesco Petrarch studied ancient Roman texts. Nicola Vicentino wrote chromatic pieces. Music can affect emotions, they used theory texts from Rome and used ancient poetry
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Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style Agincourt Carol
Anonymous Political carol 15th century England Tuneful, discant and triple meter
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Listening: composer, genre, historical background, musical style Quam pulcra es
John Dunstaple 15th century England Pan-consonant motet Contains a 7-6 suspension and Faburden characteristics
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Listening: Composer, genre, historical background and musical style Dueil angoisseus
Gilles Binchois 15th century Formes fixes ballade Sacred music written by a priest Could have been played in Burgundian courts Ends on a half cadence and has an A and B section
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Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background Lament for the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople
Dufay 15th century Motet chanson French text in upper voice and a Latin chant in tenor
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Listening: Composer, genre, musical style and historical background A. Tune and B. Kyrie
Dufay 15th century Cantus firmus mass Encouraged Christians to fight daily battle against sin. Lengthy/complex and five movements
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Listening: Composer, genre, style and history Prenez sur moi
Ockeghem 15th century Forms fixes rondeau Uses imitation and canon
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Listening: Guillaume se va chaufer
Josquin 15th century Canon Simple and amusing Upper two voices sing a unison canon King Louis XI was said to have found this piece in 1517 and liked it a lot
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Listening: Composer, genre, history and style La Spagna
Isaac Basse danse Pop song of the 15th century Used as dance music
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Listenings: Composer, genre, history and style El grillo e bon cantore
Prez 16th century frottola Uses improvisation Vernacular poetry as text With string instruments accompanying.
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Listening: Composer, genre, history and style Tant que vivray (a, b and c)
Sermisy 16th century Parisian chanson Social music intended for educated musicians (that could read music)
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Ave Maria | Genre, era and composer
Motet Josquin 16th century
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Listening: Pavane and Galliard
Anonymous 16th century Dances

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