music lit exam 3

over chapter 7 8 and 9 for my class. hurrah.

Villancico

Spanish, secular, polyphonic. Made for peasants but fancied up to seem higher class.

Oy Comamos y Bebamos

Juan del Encina. Example of Villancico that celebrates feasting and drinking.

Types of Italian song in 16th century

Frottola, Lauda, canzonetta, balleto (fa la la dance music), and most importantly, MADRIGALS!

Petrarch

Italian dude who wrote all the madrigal poems. Lots of madrigalisms duh

Contrapunctal

overlapping polyphony

French Chansons

Playful, for amateurs, syllabic, duple meter, melody in top voice, homophonic, short sections, SIMPLE

Reformation and printing press

we’re like “hey, the church kinda sucks!” and we print it with printing presses

The Council of Trent

advocated for “appropriate” sacred polyphony

where were the Concerto delle donne located

court of Ferrara

Solo e pensono

Luca Marenzio, madrigal using chromaticism to depict leaving society. 1553

when did distinct instrumental genres become a thing

like 1450

dance music

featured short sections immediately repeated w/ imrpov and ornamentation

consort

group of instruments or really similar fellers

Anthem

a polyphonic work associated with the Church of England

Psalter

used by Calvinists, monophonic, strophic, used French psalm texts

The four composers in the Counter Reformation

Palestrina, Victoria, Lassus, Byrd

Contrafacta

Reformation music that replaces the text of a vocal work with new texts suited for the church

Carlo Gesualdo

composer/murderer who explored torture and death through madrigals

Ferrara

city in Italy, avant-garde vocal music in the Renaissance

Oriana

Queen Elizabeth, who was in all of the English Renaissance songs

Palestrina year and country

1525-1594 Italy

Palestrina compositions

Pope Marcellus, Agnus Dei and Credo

Palestrina style

expressive, clean and sober. Arched melodies, stepwise motion, and countered leaps

Victoria years and country

1548-1611 Spain

Victoria compositions

O magnum mysterium

Victoria style

Expressive, intense, with many accidentals

Lassus years and country

1532-1594 France (Franco-Flemish)

Lassus compositions

Cum essem pavulus

Lassus style

Madrigalisms!

Byrd year and country

1540-1623 England

Byrd compositions

Sing joyfully unto God

Byrd style

Imitation, alternates homophony and polyphony