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BELLWORK. Who did you like better: Michelangelo or Da Vinci? Why?. PLANNER : TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK. Paragraph on your experience as an artist for someone else. Patron Assignment DUE. MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE. BEFORE WE START.
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BELLWORK • Who did you like better: Michelangelo or Da Vinci? Why?
PLANNER: TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK • Paragraph on your experience as an artist for someone else. • Patron Assignment DUE
BEFORE WE START... • There are a few major things about the Renaissance that we need to know before we dive in… • So, some major things that happened: • A rise in Humanism (Focus on the Human instead of the Spiritual) • A newfound appreciation and love for Greek and Roman art and culture • Innovation and Discovery • Growth of Commercialism • Creation of the Middle Class
MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE • The musical period of the Renaissance is considered to have happened actually about 100 years after the Renaissance began • During this time, music was influenced by all the innovations of the Renaissance, and was heavily influenced by the invention of… • The Printing Press! (The Gutenburg Press) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kOmdSIpCm4 • How do you think the printing press helped music?
MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE • The Printing Press made music available across the world • Sheet music, when able to be mass-produced, made it easy for music to now be heard around the world • This made it easier for a song to become popular!
NEW INSTRUMENTS • Music was composed mainly for? • The Church, of course! • However, there were many new genres and ways of composition that came about in the Renaissance • 15th Century— control was taken by Northern European/English composers
GUILLAME DU FAY • Many of his compositions were based on Gregorian chants • He introduced a new lyricism to his work by setting music to secular French poetry • Nuper Rosarum Flores, 1436 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dV5b8AuLHg
MUSIC PRINTING • Before 1501, music was all either copied by hand or taught by ear • In 1501, Petrucci published the first ever collection of polyphonic music • Can you imagine a world where you might only hear your favorite song a few times in your life? • Now, people could finally have written music— they could learn to play it en masse and music could be spread around the world
INSTRUMENTS • The viola de gamba was the new instrument created in the Renaissance • Instruments could now be played by amateur musicians as long as they had money • Instruments include: • Lute • Recorder • Organ • Harpsichord
VIOL DE GAMBA • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPavUIKOFBw
TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER • How has the Renaissance influenced music? • Did music become more accessible? • Do you think that music would be the same if it weren’t for the Renaissance?