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Renaissance. What Doest Thou Know?. Songs-Genres. Sacred: religious text Mass: Order of the Mass Kyrie, Gloria,Credo , Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Benedictus Example: “Gloria” from the Mass Secular: non-religious text Troubadours- first group of people to perform secular works
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Renaissance What Doest Thou Know?
Songs-Genres Sacred: religious text Mass: Order of the Mass Kyrie, Gloria,Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Benedictus Example: “Gloria” from the Mass Secular: non-religious text Troubadours- first group of people to perform secular works Madrigal-secular composition written for 4-6 voices Example: “Now is the Month of Maying” –Thomas Morley
Forms of Songs • Monophony- consisting of melody without accompanying harmony. • “Dies Irae”-composer unknown • Homophony- two or more parts move together in harmony • “Holy, Holy, Holy”-Reginald Heber • Polyphony- texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody • “SicutCervus”-Palestrina
Instruments Lute- early type of guitar Recorder- early type of flute Sackbut- early type of trombone http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html