Chapter 9 Renaissance Music
Chapter 9 Renaissance Music
The Renaissance Outlook
Rebirth of interest in ancient civilizations
Humanism
Many great works of art
Gutenberg’s invention of movable type
Age of exploration
The “Renaissance man” – Leonardo da Vinci
The Renaissance Mass
Ordinary set to music
Based on phrase of Gregorian chant
Addition of bass voice part
Points of imitation
Josquin: Kyrie from Pange lingua Mass
The Renaissance Motet
Sacred polyphonic work for voices
All parts sing same text
Sung in Latin
No strong feeling of chord progressions
Limited feeling of meter – don’t feel the beat
Sung without accompaniment (a cappella)
The Renaissance Motet
Very singable and smooth vocal lines
Palestrina: “Sicut cervus”
The Madrigal
Secular work, often polyphonic, for small vocal group
Differs from a motet
Vernacular languages
Examples: Tanzen und Springen (German)
Il est Bel et bon (French),
Come Again Sweet Love (English)
Texts often deal with love
Tend to be more rhythmic
Sung at social gatherings
Word Painting
Often music depicts words being sung
Weelkes’s “As Vesta Was . . ” examples:
“descending”
“came running down amain”
“two by two,” “three by three,” “together”
Renaissance Instrumental Music
Lute (Sting and Edin Karazamov) - video
Dance music
Pavane
Galliard
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