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Renaissance Music

Renaissance Music. Review – High Middle Ages. Texture Monophonic A single, unaccompanied melody Polyphonic Two or more simultaneous and independent melodies Machaut’s Quant en moy c. 14 th century High Middle Ages Can you follow the lyrics or one of the voices? Melismatic (many notes).

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Renaissance Music

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  1. Renaissance Music

  2. Review – High Middle Ages Texture • Monophonic • A single, unaccompanied melody • Polyphonic • Two or more simultaneous and independent melodies • Machaut’s Quant en moy c. 14th century • High Middle Ages • Can you follow the lyrics or one of the voices? • Melismatic (many notes)

  3. Renaissance Music • Humanist • Education included music • Humanist (Greek) • Pythagoras and the math behind music • Music could affect human emotion • Printing Press • Mass reproduction of music • Music affordable in homes • Music as a business (Artists to Composers) • Songs in vernacular • Secular songs

  4. Renaissance Music • High Renaissance Style • Fluid, smooth, carefully controlled polyphony • Occasional uses of homophony • Voices move together in same rhythm • Imitative Polyphony (Counterpoint) • Voices echo a phrase in another voice at a different pitch

  5. Josquin Desprez • Considered the greatest Renaissance composer • “Josquin is the master of the notes.” – Luther • Petite Camusette(Little Snubnose) c. 1500 • Six voices • Imitative polyphony (listen for the echo) • How easy is it to follow the words?

  6. Renaissance Mass Josquin Desprez Ave maris stella, c. 1500 • Paraphrase mass • Based on plainchant • Imitative Polyphony • 4 Voices • Can you follow the voices? • Pay attention to the lyrics • Try to pick out the bass voice, especially at the end.

  7. Renaissance Mass Giovanni da Palestrina Pope Marcellus, 1555 • Composed to show Church leaders that music in the church was not evil • Six voices • Compare these lyrics to Josquin’s • Is this mass easier or harder to follow than Josquin’s?

  8. The Madrigal • A secular, unaccompanied vocal work for four to six individual voices. • Most important genre of secular music • Often based on poetry • Word Painting • Music that reflects the meaning of a word or group of words

  9. The Madrigal Cipriano de Rore Datemi pace (Give me peace) 1557 • Listen for word painting • “Death” low tones • “Love” bright tones • Follow along with the lyrics. What is the song about? • What literary form is this? • Who do you think wrote the original?

  10. The Madrigal Carlo Gesualdo • Prince, not a professional composer • Seriously disturbed Io parto (I am leaving) 1611 • Extensive word painting • Bizarre harmonics • Focus on the emotion of this song. How do you feel? • Try to summarize the plot as you follow the lyrics.

  11. The Madrigal Thomas Weelkes • English As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending • 1601 • Oriana is a reference to Elizabeth I • Word painting • “hill” • “descending” • “ascending” • “running down” • “two by two” • “three by three” • “all alone” • What is the last line?

  12. Riddle Song Scarborough Faire • Elizabethan Era, but melody is probably older Questions to think about: • What is he asking his true love to do? • Why? • Does he love or hate her? • What’s the deal with the herbs?

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