Music History Chapter 8

In the fifteenth century, Burgundian composers Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois were notably influenced by

John Dunstable.

What qualities about English music influenced Burgundian composers?

prolific harmonic thirds and sixths, often in parallel motion

In polyphonic English music, what was faburden?

three-voice polyphonic music with plainchant in the middle voice, one voice a fourth above the chant, and another voice a third below

Cantilenas were similar to the earlier

conductus.

In the English carol, a burden is

a refrain sung at the beginning of the song and repeated after each stanza.

What is the technique known as paraphrase?

a chant melody is ornamented and given a rhythm

John Dunstable worked

for royalty and nobility.

What was a motet in the fifteenth century?

a polyphonic setting of a liturgical Latin text

Burgundy was a Duchy of

France.

What is one reason for the cosmopolitan musical style of the Burgundian court?

The court attracted an international crowd and foreign musicians visited frequently.

For how many voices were most polyphonic vocal compositions of the mid-fifteenth century written?

three

In fifteenth-century chansons, what was the most common form?

rondeau

What is hemiola?

three notes in the time of two

Who was the most famous Burgundian composer of the fifteenth century?

Guillaume Du Fay

How does Binchois's De plus en plus reflect English influence?

The use of triadic skips.

How does Du Fay's Resvellies vous reflect French musical traditions?

ballade form

How does Du Fay's Se la face ay pale reflect English influence?

equality of the tenor and cantus

In fauxbourdon

he top voices are written and the middle voice parallels the top a fourth below.

What was Du Fay's relationship to the isorhythmic motet?

It was a century old, and composers only used the style on solemn occasions.

What is one development in mass composition in the fifteenth century?

cohesive settings of the Mass Ordinary

Which of the following was a way that fifteenth-century composers established coherence between mass movements?

basing each movement on the existing chant for that movement

What is a cantus-firmus mass?

a mass in which each movement contains the same cantus firmus

One melody often borrowed for cantus-firmus masses was

L'homme armé.

What problem emerged in three-voice cantus-firmus masses?

An unalterable melody in the lowest voice limited composers' choices too much.

How does Du Fay treat the song he used for the cantus firmus in Missa Se la face ay pale?

He augments it, doubling the durations of notes.

What voices comprised the four-voice texture of cantus-firmus masses, that spread to other genres by the end of the fifteenth century?

bassus, tenor, altus, and superius