Music History Test 3

words and muisc: text painting or text depiction; grammar/structure effected music directly texture: polyphonic (through imitation) or homorhythmic

developed polyphonic music printing

Harmonice Musices Odhecaton- the first book polyphonic music to be printed

spread to France; constant battle became to influence France with music

"English Quality"; more chordal sounding

kind of song that was in strophic with refrain form

developed technique of paraphrase

from Burgundy; composed secular chanson

singer/composer/church official; degree in Cannon Law; spent most of career in Italy

Nuper Rosarum Flores; lower 2 voices are isorhythmic

when you take a chant melody and add harmony a 3rd below and. 4th above. (sounds like a series of inverted triads)

when you alternate voices; plain chant in one verse, polyphonic chant in the next verse

Plainsong Mass- Oldest cycle; each movement uses as its base a corresponding chant (base your kyrie on Kyrie chant)

Each movement begins with same musical idea

Each movement constructed around same melody placed in Tenor voice Cantus Firmus- when you take a preexisting melody that is used as a base

Take a chunk of all the voices of a preexisting polyphonic work and make that the base of your mass

paraphrase a chant melody and use it as the base for your mass

international famous composer; studied with DuFay and possibly Binchois; most famous for job at the French Royal Chapel; skilled at using intellectual devices such as canon

Canon- rule or instruction for realizing several parts out of one that is noted Mensuration canon- when you have a melody but you give it 2 or more different mensuration signs (Missa Prolationum ((most famous composition)))

Internationally famous during his lifetime; worked for Lorenzo d'Medici

contains (hundreds) motets settings of the proper text of the mass for the whole church year

structure of music is always related to the text; primary technique is imitation; extensive use of text depiction and borrowed material

reflecting images of the text in the music

Ave Maria ... virgo serena

Missa Pange lingua

Drew up a list of 95 topics to debate that he thought were wrong with the Catholic church (caused a split in the church); created his own church (reformation church); believed music was a gift from God and doctrine of ethos

Most significant contribution of the reformation to music was the development of the chorale. Chorale: strophic hymn with a text and melody sung in unison. Created from 4 sources: adaptations of Gregorian chant, german devotional songs, contrafactum, and chorales newly composed in style of popular songs (bar form)

secular songs, such as folk songs, were adapted by giving them new texts

tenorlied style: melody in tenor with the other voices in counterpoint Cantional style: melody in the soprano Chorale motet: use a paraphrased chorale melody as the basis for your motet

translate into french, turn it into metrical poetry, sung by congregation, unaccompanied

books of metrical psalms that people could sing out of

Elaborate polyphony; contrapuntal and melismatic music; written for large settings and groups

Homorhythmic and syllabic music; Simpler and easier to sing

Anthem with verse for soloists, choir, and sometimes instrumental ensembles

anthem for unaccompanied choir

long-breathed, easily singable melodies that move by steps or easy leaps; consonant sonorities w/ carefully controlled dissonance; equality of parts; use of familiar style, syllabic text setting, use of subsets of the total # of voices; subtle rhythmic variety based on textual accentuation

same characteristics as Palestrina, only difference is he used more chromatic harmonies; "went outside the mode more than Palestrina"; Parody Mass- Missa O Magnum Mysterium

Most famous for composing over 700 sacred and secular motets; Characteristics- Text depiction was his most outstanding one, also known for expressive and tasteful music

Characteristics- equality of voices, prevailing texture is imitative polyphony w/ overlapping cadences, careful dissonance treatment, most in duple meter, and # of values went 4/5/6

efforts to address the problems addressed by Martin Luther

meeting of church leaders, discussed everything regarding the church including music

Abolished all but 4 sequences: Dies Irae, Abolishes secular/ profane influences, overall effect: confirmation of FF style/polyphony