Madrigals Flashcards

Question

Meistersingers

Answer 1

``` German master singer amateur singer / poet composer member of a guild that cultivated monophonic songs derived from minnelieder urban merchants / artisans ```

Answer 2

song for voice accompaniment court air dominant type of French vocal music

Answer 3

``` duple and triple groupings alternate freely musique mesuree chanson late 16th centure strophic SS LS LS L L meter gives coherence tries to emulate Ancient Greek poetic meter instead of being hemiolic melismas in each part relain for 5 voices strophes - chants some lines were doubled my instrument ```

Answer 4

measured music text setting in chansons stressed syllables are given longer notes than unstressed usually 2x longer

Answer 5

``` chanson Orlando de lassus 1570s light homophonic type syncopated - altus / cantus harmony - structure / contrast mode 1 - final cadence / superiors/temor ranges 1st part - mode final d / 2nd scale degree E / 2nd part - on f / bright sonority / close on D ```

Answer 6

``` imitative counterpoint symmetrical rhyme chanson 1534 2 stanzas 5 lines - iambic pentameter staggered through composed homorhythimic endings LSS Rhythms g dorian accompanied by lute ```

Answer 7

``` courtly love top melody accented dissonances syncopated suspension before cadence 1527 chanson Claudia de sermisy tuneful melody syllabic declamation lively rhythm simple harmonies homophonic texture balanced phrases repeated sections 2 strophes aab form syllabic homophonic harmony on root position triads ```

Answer 8

``` little dance simple dancelike homophonic falala refrains ```

Answer 9

``` little song 16th simple homophonic diminutive of canzona ```

Answer 10

``` lively strophic piece 3 voices homophonic style 1540s parallel 5ths rustic ```

Answer 11

``` Strophic aabb - repeated sections begin with homophonic setting conclude - falala refrains dancelike rhythms, varied textures, occasional contrapuntal Giovanni giacomo Castoldi balletto 1593 homophonic accompany by position root triads mode 7 mixolydian ```

Answer 12

``` John Dowland pavane form processional dance 3 repeated strains aabbCC 2nd books of songs or ayres contrapuntal 6-8 cadence falling 5th in bass harmonies rise in 3rds/5ths root motion is directional plagal mode on a ```

Answer 13

old sheet music indicates what strings to pluck to tell pitches

Answer 14

solo song with lute acc.

Answer 15

``` Thomas weelkes madrigal rising/falling scales 1601 5 rhymed couplets 4 voices imitative polyphony alternating pairs ```

Answer 16

``` Strophic aabb - repeated sections begin with homophonic setting conclude - falala refrains dancelike rhythms, varied textures, occasional contrapuntal Thomas Morley ballett 1595 mode 7 mixolydian 4square homorhythmic homophonic ```

Answer 17

``` little dance simple dancelike homophonic falala refrains ```

Madrigals Flashcards

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