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Renaissance Period (Secular Music)

Renaissance Period (Secular Music). Music in Court and City Life Professional Musicians Entertained nobles at court Performed at civic festivities Amateur Musicians Came about with rise of the merchant class Music making in the home became popular

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Renaissance Period (Secular Music)

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  1. Renaissance Period (Secular Music)

  2. Music in Court and City Life • Professional Musicians • Entertained nobles at court • Performed at civic festivities • Amateur Musicians • Came about with rise of the merchant class • Music making in the home became popular • Most prosperous homes had a lute or a keyboard instrument • The study of music was considered part of the proper upbringing for a young girl or, to a lesser degree, boy. • Women began to have prominent roles in music performance

  3. Instrumental Dance Music • With the advent of music printing, books of dance music became readily available for solo instruments and small ensembles. • Dance music was often simplified instrumental versions of vocal works such as madrigals and chansons. • Instruments were not specified • Percussion parts were not written, they were improvised

  4. Dance Types • Pavane – stately court dance • Saltarello – Italian jumping dance • Galliard – French version of the saltarello • Allemande – German dance • Ronde – round dance

  5. TielmanSusato • Three Dances • Dance Type: Ronde • in duple meter • arranged for 4 part ensemble • This recording features double reeds (shawms) and brass (sackbut), and percussion • Each dance is in binary form • 2 repeated sections (A-A-B-B). • On the repeats the musicians devise embellishments and add instruments. • 4 or 8 measure phrases • a final chord provides a cue for the dancers to make a bow.

  6. Secular Genres • From the union of poetry and music arose two important secular genres: • Chanson • Madrigal

  7. Chanson • Chanson • The favored genre at the courts of Burgundian dukes and kings of France • Usually written for 3 or 4 voices • Set to the courtly love verses of French Renaissance poets.

  8. Josquin Des Prez • Mille regretz (A thousand regrets) • Genre: French chanson • 4 voices (SATB) • Date: 1520 • Text: Love poem, quatrain (a-b-b-a) • Listening – • Name opening ascending interval in soprano part • Describe texture (it changes) • Sad mood, is it major, minor, or other? • Where do you hear a melisma?

  9. Mille regretz (A thousand regrets) • Answers • Name opening ascending interval in soprano part • a leap of a fourth • Describe texture (it changes) • Starts homorhythmic • Then pairs of imitative voices (SA vs TB) • To continuous imitation • Sad mood, is it major, minor, or other? • modal (phrygian mode) • Where do you hear a melisma? • melisma on “regretz”

  10. Italian Madrigal • Perhaps the most important secular genre of the era • An aristocratic form of poetry and music • Flourished in Italian courts • The text consisted of a short poem of reflective nature • Often included emotional words like weeping, sighing, trembling, and dying • Love and unsatisfied desire were popular topics. • Instruments were often used in the performance of madrigals, duplicating or substituting for the voices. Sometimes only the top part was sung while the other lines were played on instruments.

  11. Claudio Monteverdi • Eccomormorarl’onde (Hear, now, the waves murmur) • Genre: Italian madrigal • 5 voices (SSATB) • Text: 14 rhyming lines a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d-e-e-f-f-g-g • Find the word painting • Gentle waves rise and fall • Rustling of leaves • Song of birds • Morning breeze • Heavy hearts • Listening – • word painting • alternation of voice groups, from low to high • clear text with repeated phrases • somber mood and slower pace in closing line to portray “heavy heart”

  12. English Madrigal • English composers developed the Italian madrigal into a native art form. • madrigals flourished in the late sixteenth century • Important composers: • Thomas Morley • Thomas Weelkes • John Farmer • The English preferred simpler texts • New humorous madrigal types were cultivated, some with refrain syllables such as “fa la la.”

  13. John Farmer • Fair Phyllis • Genre: English madrigal • 4 voices (SATB) • Text: 6 lines a-b-a-b-c-c • musical style: polyphonic • word painting • Listening – • lighthearted English text • 4 voices (SATB) • varied textures (monophonic at opening, later polyphonic, then homorhythmic) • change from duple to triple meter • word painting

  14. Homework • Listening Quiz (updated listening sheet on web) • Renaissance Test (power points on web) • Musical Investigation (rough draft/list) • Bring Dido and Aeneas

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