Music Appreciation Chapter 20

Remember Me: Personalizing the Motet in the Renaissance

Humanism

An awakening shifting from relying on tradition/religion, to the ability to solve ones own problems with rationality.

imitation

melodic idea presented in one voice or part, then restated in another. Each part continuing as others enter.

Humanism

An awakening shifting from relying on tradition/religion, to the ability to solve ones own problems with rationality.

imitation

melodic idea presented in one voice or part, then restated in another. Each part continuing as others enter.

cantus firmus

“fixed melody” usually of very long notes, often based on a fragment of gregorian chant that served as the structural basis for polyphonic composition.(renaissance)

motet

Polyphonic vocal genre, often secular in the middle ages, but sacred or devotional thereafter.

homorhythmic

all voices move together rhythmically