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Renaissance Period

Renaissance Period. Society Church less powerful because of reformation Humanism Printing press spread learning Educated people taught music Musical activity shifted to courts Composers sought credit for work . Words and music Music to enhance meaning of text

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Renaissance Period

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  1. Renaissance Period

  2. Society • Church less powerful because of reformation • Humanism • Printing press spread learning • Educated people taught music • Musical activity shifted to courts • Composers sought credit for work

  3. Words and music • Music to enhance meaning of text • Word painting

  4. Texture • Chiefly polyphonic: 4-6 important voices • Homophony (in dances) • Bass register used: richer harmony • Stable chords with triads - The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance is one of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance • imitation • A cappella—little accompaniment • cantus firmus

  5. Rhythm and melody • Rhythm a gentle flow, not sharp beat • Rhythmic independence between lines • Melody – smooth, few large leaps

  6. Sacred Music • The Early Renaissance Mass • Rise of polyphony • Composers concentrated on the Ordinary of the Mass • Kyrie • Gloria • Credo • Sanctus • Agnus Dei • Use of cantus firmus (fixed melody)

  7. Guillaume Du Fay • The L’hommearme Mass • Use of a popular tune (L’hommearme) as its basis (long notes in tenor line) • Use of 5th and octaves as well as intervals of 3rd and 6th • Overall 4 voice polyphonic texture • Each part begins with fewer than 4 voices then adds the tenor part with the popular tune in long notes

  8. Motet • Became a sacred form of music • A single Latin text • Used in the Mass and other religious services • Motets in praise of Mary were very popular

  9. Josquin des Prez • Ave Maria . . . virgoserena (Hail Mary . . . gentle virgin) • 4 voice motet • Opening of motet uses imitative voice entrances.

  10. The Late Renaissance Mass • The reformation • The counter reformation • Work with the poor • Efforts to combat heresy (Jesuits) • Council of Trent • The Council of Trent – to regulate religious discipline, including music – worried about: • The corruption of traditional chants • Extravagant embellishments • Objected to certain instruments • Incorporating popular songs into Mass • Debated the use of polyphony

  11. Giovanni Pierluigida Palestrina • Pope Marcellus Mass • begins with a monophonic intonation of the opening line • the remaining is polyphonic • the words are clear and audible • a cappella style

  12. Sacred music • Josquin des Prez • Flemish composer • Motet = polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text • Wrote Ave Maria…Virgo Serena • Giovanni Pierluigida Palestrina • 16th century Italian composer, music director for St. Peter’s • Wrote for Catholic church • Pope Marcellus Mass convinced polyphony okay

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