Music History Exam Two

John Dunstable

• Wrote in “The English manner.”

• Treble line dominates, ornamented cantus fermi

Fauxbordon

• English false bass

• Top voice carries the tune

• Middle voice is added a 4th below the top voice

• Dissonance is carefully created

• Ave Maris Stella

Guillaume Du Fay

Created Fauxbordon

Values of the Renaissance 

• Internationalism

• Cosmopolitanism

• Humanism

• Ancient inspiration

• New technologies (printing)

Internationalism

Moving around and learning new ways to write music

Cosmopolitism

A lot of people in one place

Johannes Tinctoris

• Most significant renaissance music theorist

• Wrote first dictionary of musical terms

• Wrote rules of counterpoint

Gilles Binchois

Mostly wrote chansons, Franco Flemish School with DuFay

Cyclic Mass

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei and they all have to have something in common

High Style

Cyclic Mass - Pope Marcellus Mass

Middle Style

Motet - Ave Maris Stallis

Low Style

Instrumental or Dance Music - El Grillo

Paraphrase Mass

Elaborated Cantus Firmus

Parody Mass

Polyphonic Source

Petrucci

First printed musical work

Josquin

Franco-Flemish, Ars Perfecta, first composer to have full set of works printed

Michelangelo and Rafael

Artists were commissioned to decorate structures in Rome

L’Homme Arme Mass

Ockeghem, Obrecht, it is a cantus firmus

Text Painting

reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements

Declamation

how composers set words to music for singers to perform

Martin Luther

Began Lutheran Church

William Byrd

Monopoly on music printing, 3 masses, 470 compositions in all genres

Madrigal

The subject matter was almost always love. Grew spicier and more dissonant by 1650. “Through Composed”, “Madrigalisms” -Text painting, Homophonic and Contrapuntal, Men and women both sing together

Villancicos

(Spanish devotional song) used as a tool for evangelization

Ottoman Empire

Took Constantinople

Janissary military band

The Naggara

The Rebec

early string instrument

The tambur

early guitar

Council of trent

proposed banning polyphonic music

Claudio Monteverdi

Composed sacred and secular music madrigals

Second Pratica

Music is the servant of the words

Stile (or genre) concitato

agitated style, rapid repeated notes and extended trills as symbols of bellicose agitation of anger

Indulgences

How much does it cost to get into Heaven

The Frottola

A popular type of secular Italian song in the late 15th and early 16th centuries that serves as a predecessor to the madrigal.