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Renaissance music

Renaissance music. 1450-1600 A.D. What did it sound like. Used the interval of a third Polyphony (dif. voices have dif. notes) Madrigal, Mass, Motet, and Laude Genres: Toccata, Prelude, Instrumental included: a pavane, a galliard, an allemande, or a courante.

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Renaissance music

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  1. Renaissance music 1450-1600 A.D.

  2. What did it sound like • Used the interval of a third • Polyphony (dif. voices have dif. notes) • Madrigal, Mass, Motet, and Laude • Genres: Toccata, Prelude, • Instrumental included: a pavane, a galliard, an allemande, or a courante. • Took Medieval Music to a new level with greater harmony and better notation

  3. Brass Instruments Slide Trumpet Sackbut Trumpet Cornett

  4. String Instruments Viol Lyre Irish Harp Harpsichord Hurdy Gurdy, Cittern, Lute, Virginal

  5. Percussion Instruments Mouth Harp Tambourine

  6. Woodwind Instruments Bagpipes Shawm Pan Pipe Recorder Traverse Flute Reed / Horn Pipe

  7. Notation • 5 lines, 4 spaces • Whole notes, half notes, double whole • No bar lines/measures • Everyone was well trained in chord structure and read a style of tablature called Counterpoint (numbers to tell you what notes to play)

  8. Famous Composersand their works • Thomas Tallis (1510-1585) - early church composer • Josquin des Prez (1440-1521) - Masses • Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - Opera “Orfeo” • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526-1594) - 104 masses, 68 offertories, more than 300 motets, at least 72 hymns, 35 magnificats, 11 litanies, 4 or 5 sets of lamentations etc., and at least 140 madrigals.

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