Renaissance Period

Question 1

Renaissance Composer timeline

Answer 1

Du Fay and Dunstable, Binchois
Josquin and Ockeghem
Petrucci
Attaignant
Arcadelt
Zarlino
Palestrina
Yonge
Dowland

Question 2

Renaissance period and general characteristics

Answer 2

15th and 16th centuries

• Musicians w/positions outside native regions. Exchange of national traditions/genres/ideas
• Music begins to reflect meaning of text
• Music printing (early 16th cent)
• New forms of religious music (reformation)
• Lifelike art and architecture

Question 3

English Renaissance music

Answer 3

Dunstable - motets, mass ordinary, secular songs, 3 part settings of liturgical texts
“Quam Pulchra Es” - (motet) lots of 3rds and 6ths moving together. Sounds more like a carol.

Question 4

Burgundian (French) lands

Answer 4

Secular chansons (French), motets, Magnificats, hymn settings.
DuFay - reveilles Vous - Ballade form. “Se la face ay pale”
Binchois - “De plus en plus” Rondeau

Question 5

The “Low Countries” (Northern Composers)

Answer 5

Ockeghem - mass based on de Plus en Plus. Less intricate than Ars Subtilior. Masses with fuller texture, Lower notes. Mass parts unified musically. teacher of Obrecht, Isaac, des Prez

Question 6

Obrecht, Isaac, & des Prez

Answer 6

Isaac - “Innsbrucck, Ich muss dich lassen”. Sounds like a hymn
Des Prez - Chansons, strophic texts. “Mille regretz,” homogenous texture. Wrote imitative mass and paraphrase mass

Question 7

Italian national styles in 16th century

Answer 7

Music printing - amateur performers
Italy - Frottole & Laude, and Madrigal (through composed setting of short poem, artful)
• Arcadelt (Il Bianco) - madrigal
• Cipriano de Rore - Chromaticism
• Gesualdo - also chromaticism, intense match w/poetry

Question 8

Amateur secular song outside of Italy

Answer 8

France
-Sermisy, Attaignant, Janequin. Heterophonic textures, strophic repetitive forms.
England
-Morley, Weelkes - English text/madrigals
-Lute music - Dowland
Spain
-Villancico - fun and celebratory.

Question 9

Sacred music & Reformation

Answer 9

Germany
-Lutheran church music, German mass (Walter, Luther, etc)
France
-Psalms
England
-Tallis - latin masses

Question 10

Counter Reformation

Answer 10

Crack down on Catholicism
• Palestrina - 6 voice mass. Created a preserved style
• Tomas Luis de Victoria
• Orlando di Lasso
-Listen for points of imitation.