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Renaissance Flashcards

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Humanism

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Study of the humanities - the idea that the pursuits of man are worthy of study (as well as the study of God)
Emphasis of learning, ancient greek and roman thought, and education.

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Petrucci

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Developed first moveable type in 1501.

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Faburden

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The chant is in the middle voice, and they build 6/3 chords around it. Perfect intervals at the end for resolution. First inversion triads

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Fauxbourdon

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French version of faburden.

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Contenance Angloise

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English Countenance

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Low Countries

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(Netherlands, Belgium) Countries Low to the ocean.

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Cantus Firmus

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A tune is used in the tenor voice in long note values.

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Cantus Firmus Mass

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A mass with a tune in the tenor voice extended in long note values.

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L’homme arme

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A popular tune, related to the order of the golden fleece.

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Canon

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A rule used to derive single or multiple voices from a single notated line.

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Mensural Notation

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Minim
Semibreve
Breve

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Point of Imitation

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A phrase of music used to sing a line of text which is sung in imitation between one voice and the next.

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Paraphrase Mass

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A mass based off a tune in which the tune is broken into phrases, made into points of imitation, and gradually become more paraphrased

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Frottola

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Italian secular polyphony
Simple, lighthearted, fun
3 or 4 voices or 1-2 + lute

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Carnival song

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The Carnival was a season of the year before lent; a time of revelry.
The song was written on behalf of guilds.
Full of off-color double entendre. (innuendos?)

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Lauda (pl. laude)

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Italian for song of praise.
In 15th c homophonic.

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Giramola Savanorola

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A Dominican Friar - traveling monk/preacher. Saw the sin in Florence/church in italy. Banned carnival songs - promoted Lauda. Wrote Lauda texts! Based on carnival tunes.

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Viola de Gamba

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Similar to cello - cousin.
6 strings and frets.
Bowed differently from a violin and cello.
Underhand bow hold.

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Lute

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Pear-shaped, similar to a guitar In that it is plucked
11 strings, but in pairs except for one, so it’s 6 like a guitar.
Frets tied around the back of the band. Moveable, to adjust tuning for different keys.

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Recorder

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Made of wood - SO many sizes. Wind instrument

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Shawm

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Ancestor of the oboe. Double reed goes inside the mouth. No metal keys - a wood body with holes drilled into it for note changes.

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Crumhorn

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Made out of one piece of wood bent and curved - like a pipe or cane. Double reed instrument, but the reed is inside a cap.

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Rackett

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the hole curves 9 times within the piece of wood. Very low.

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Cornetto

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Looks like a curved recorder with a brass mouthpiece. 6 finger holes and a thumb hole. Made of wood. Covered in leather. Originally made from animal horns or tusks.

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Sackbut

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Sackbutt means the putting out and in of the slide. Trombone means large trumpet.

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Pipe and Tabor

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A one-handed recorded, with a drum hanging from the same hand. The drum is beat with the other hand.

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Indulgences

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Trying to get your time in purgatory shortened by paying a church leader.

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95 Theses

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The short, Latin theses Luther posted to the Wittenburg church door. They were translated into German, and printed, so as to rapidly spread.

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Formulae Missae

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(Means formula of the mass)
In Latin
1523

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Deutsche Messe

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In German
1526

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Chorale

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A German Hymn
A text and a tune - monophonic.
Strophic, with lots of rich stanzas.
Bar form (AAB).

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Bar Form

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AAB

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Johanne Walter

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One of Luther’s friends - a very skilled composer.
Mimicked other styles, like Josquin.

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Tenorlied

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The melody is in the tenor, and the other voices do other stuff. Like a cantus firmus, but the melody doesn’t have to go slower.

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Cantional Style

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There was a melody
Homophonic
Triads associated with the trinity
Clear breaks between phrases
Functional

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Metrical Psalm

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37
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Henry VII

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Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)
-pro-Pope, anti-Luther
-first married to Catherine of Aragon
-gets special permission from the Pope to so
-doesn’t produce a male heir
-divorces Catherine
-marries Anne Boleyn against the Pope’s permission
-gets excommunicated by the Pope
-removes England from the Catholic Church and Pope
-has a male heir, Edward VI, with his third wife

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Thomas Cranmer

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Archbishop of Canturbury

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Anthem

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English version of a motet- motet for the anglican church. Full anthem had a choir alone, while verse anthem had alternating choir and soloist.

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English Cross relation

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db against a d - minor second?

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Council of Trent

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A group of Catholics that met to respond to the reformation during 1545-1485.

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Parody Mass/Imitation Mass

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1: Find a polyphonic piece
2: Get rid of the text
3: Break piece apart
4: Build the piece in a new way
5: Put Mass text to your new piece.
6: Then change the order of the phrases

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Basso Continuio

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Continuous bass line with chords built above it, and the melody on top. Need two instruments.

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St. Mark’s Basilica

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The most important church in Venice.

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Cori Spezzatti

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Polychoral; multiple choirs/groups of instrumentalists that are spatially separated.

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Stile Concertato

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(Concerted Style) = Voices and instruments.
Also emphasized contrasts.

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Concerted Motet

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A motet in concerted style

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Michael Praetorius

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(1571-1621)
A Lutheran German musician who was passionate about Venetian Polychoral music because he believed it reflected what music will look like in Heaven,
Motto: “Heaven is my homeland.”
Composed Wachet Auf Ruft uns Die Stimme

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Madrigal

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Musical setting of sophisticated Italian Poetry;
ex. poetry of Petrarch

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Text Painting/Madrigalism

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Using music to illustrate the meaning of the text.

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Giovanni Artusi

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A music theorist that heard Cruda Amarilli and became concerned about madrigals, so much so that he wrote a treatise called “imperfections of modern music”
Was concerned about proper preparations for dissonance.

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Prima Pratica

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In the first practice the music rules the text. Follow music rules first and foremost. (Like Palestrina)

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Seconda Pratica

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In the second practice the text rules the music. If the text encourages that part writing rules be broken, they must be broken. Like using unprepared dissonance on the word “Cruel.”

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Stile Concitato

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Agitated style
Essentially just repeating 16th notes in the string part.

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Parison Chanson

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French secular music in the 15th century; easy songs to sing together. Typically strophic and homophonic.

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