Renaissance Music and Composers Flashcards
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Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes covering Renaissance polyphony, notation, lute characteristics, Palestrina, and John Dowland.
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Palestrina
A 16th-century Renaissance composer (1525–1594) who wrote almost exclusively religious vocal music in Latin and is considered a master of Renaissance polyphony.
Whole note
A musical note value depicted as a single round open circle without a stem, representing the longest note duration in a score measure.
Bar lines
Vertical lines drawn through a musical staff that divide the score into separate measures or bars.
Cadence
A point in a musical phrase where the music comes to a clear ending or intermediary stopping point.
Counterpoint
A musical term used in the Baroque period that shares the exact same meaning as polyphony, referring to multiple simultaneous independent voices.
Contrapuntal
The adjective form of counterpoint, used to describe music composed of multiple independent melodic lines.
Course
A double pair of strings on an instrument, such as a lute, that are tuned to the same pitch.
Renaissance lute
A stringed instrument played directly with the fingers without a plectrum, typically featuring more courses of strings (such as 8 courses) than medieval lutes.
John Dowland
An English (and possibly Irish) composer and lutenist (1563–1626) known for his secular solo lute music and lute songs.
Lutenist
The formal term for a person who plays the lute.
Lute song
A distinct musical genre consisting of a piece written for a solo voice accompanied by a lute.
Galliard
A fairly lively type of Renaissance dance.
Elizabethan era
The historical period corresponding to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in England during the second half of the 1500s into the early 1600s.
The Earl of Essex Galliard
A fairly lively piece for solo lute composed by John Dowland and dedicated to the Earl of Essex.
Flow My Tears
A famous, sad lute song composed by John Dowland that begins with a four-note descending scale representing falling tears.