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Renaissance Sacred Music
- 1450-1600
- 1. a capella
- 2. Reformation
- 3. Counter-Reformation
- 4. Council of Trent (1545-1563)
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Renaissance Style
- 1450-1600
- a capella
- imitative polyphony
- harmony: fuller chords, 3rds and 6ths
- duple meter
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Reformation
- Reformation: Protestant Revolt
- Martin Luther
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Martin Luther (1545-1563)
- protestant
- Augustian monk
- created the first chorales
- hymns four-part, originally sung in unison
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Counter-Reformation
- Catholic church response
- accessible music
- Council of Trent (1545-1563)
- favored pure vocal style:
- simplicity, clarity
- integrity of sacred texts
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Council of Trent (1545-1563)
- no embellishments
- no certain instruments
- no use of popular songs
- no complex polyphony
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a capella
one voice without accomp.
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Renaissance Secular Music
- 1. Women
- 2. Chanson
- 3. Italian, English Madrigals
- 4. Instrumental Dance Music
- 5. Venice
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Women in music
- music education
- fame as professional singers
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Genres: Chanson and Madrigals
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The Chanson
- song
- 3 or 4 voices
- freer poetic structures
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The Italian Madrigal
- 3-8 voices
- short poems: lyrical
- music enhanced poetry
- word painting: depicts emotional words
- instruments double or substitute voices
- Jacques Arcadelt
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The English Madrigal
- Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
- less serious, lighter texts
- John Farmer
- dance like
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John Farmer (c. 1570-1603)
- English composer, organist
- one madrigal collection
- light hearted style
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Instrumental Dance Music
- 16th century purely instrumental music develop
- published music readily
- books of dances
- percussion improvised
- dance types
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Venetian Style
multiple choirs of voices and instruments
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Madrigal originated in Italy
Jacques Arcadelt earlymaster of Italian Madrigal
English madrigal simpler lighter
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