Ars Nova (1300–1400) into the Renaissance (1450–1600) (3rd week)

Ars Nova (1300-1400)

-Church becomes unstable

-100 years war

-Black plague

-Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Francesco Landini (d. 13997)

-Italian song composer

-Rhythmic vitality, syncopation

-Secular song more developed

-With text, music and rhythm

Listening Example: Secular Song (It’s not about church and it’s Italian song)

-Eco la Primavera (spring has come)

-Genre: Secular Song 

-Composer Francesco Landini

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) (This is not included for test)

-Composed sacred and secular music

-Poet, musician, not clergy

-Composed Mass de Norte Dame

-4 voices texture (polyphonic)

-Music whole

Listening Example (This is not included for test)

-Agnus Dei from Mass de Norte Dame

-Guilliaume de Machaut

-14th Century

Renaissance (1450-1600)

-Age of “Rebirth”

-Age of “Humanism”

-Curiosity, exploration, science, medicine

-Music printing