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Intro to Music Lit
Renaissance
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Music
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2007

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Petrucci
Definition
First to print with movable type
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Tinctoris
Definition
Wrote rules for counterpoint

Leader in movement for ear over math
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Dunstable
Definition
used panconsonance

believed to live most of life in France

used triads-Quan pulchra

motets and masses
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Du Fay
Definition
Used contenance angloise in cantilena motet Flos florum

masses based on single cantus firmus

last to use plainchant repertory

wrote mainly in French
-Missa se la face ay pale
-used secualr cantus firmus
-tenor not lowest voice
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Ockegem
Definition
Missa Prolationum, uses all prolatios and a canon
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Josquin de Prez
Definition
Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
-pervading imitation with points of imitation
-paratactic
-conjunct motion

El grillo
-antiphonal

Missa Fortuna desperta
-inversion and augmentation

Missa Pangelingua
-paraphrase
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Cipriano de Rore
Definition
Wrote 16th Century Madrigals
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Casulana
Definition
First female professional composer

Wrote only madrigals
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Byrd
Definition
Composed for keyboards

Works published in first ever published collection of songs for keyboard in England
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Dowland
Definition
Lute Songs

English Madrigals
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Palestrina
Definition
Epitome of Renaissance polyphony

Used imitation
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Orlande de Lassus
Definition
Used imitation

Wrte madrigals, masses, chansons, and Lieders

Wrote musica reservata

Used imitation
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contenance angloise
Definition
Music dominated by thirds, fifths, and sixths
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Fauxbourdon
Definition
Unnotated line that runs parallel to the uppermost of two notated lines, usually a fourth below
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faburden
Definition
Interpolating lines above and below preexisting melody (done in England)

Fourth above and Thirds or Fifths below
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Panconsonance
Definition
Music that uses many triads, limited dissonance, many thirds and fifths
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Ave maria...Virgo Serena
Definition
Pervading imitation
Points of imitation
Paratactic Form
Conjunct Motion
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Pervading Imitation
Definition
Series of musical ideas are repeated in all voices throughout an entire work or section of a work
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Points of Imitation
Definition
Places where Pervading Imitation is used
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Paratactic form
Definition
All sections unrelated

A B C D E F G
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Cyclic Mass
Definition
a cycle of all movements of the Mass Ordinary integrated by a common cantus firmus or other musical device
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Head motif
Definition
a thematic idea in multiple voices placed prominently at the beginning of a movement or section of a movement
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Missa prolationum
Definition
Written by Ockeghem

Used all prolatios
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Ostinato
Definition
Cantus Firmus in atleast one voice at all times
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Cantus Firmus Mass
Definition
Mass built around a common cantus firums

Ostinato, Strict, and Free
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Canonic Mass
Definition
At least one of every notated voice generates a second
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Imitation Mass
Definition
Incorporate all voices of an existing work into fabric of new work or at least in the beginning
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Frottola
Definition
Secular Italian vocal genre of the late 15th and 16th centuries. The texture tends to be chordal and the texts are often lighthearted, comic, or ironic.
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Hemiola
Definition
Brief passage of duple-meter rhythms within an otherwise triple-meter context
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Basse Dance
Definition
Type of dance popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The notated sources preserve only a series of long notes, around which other instruments were expected to improvise their own contrapuntal lines. Letters represented dance moves.
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Parisian Chanson
Definition
Term coined by 20th century scholars to describe a type of song that emerged in the French capital during the 1520s, featuring predominantly chordal textures
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Tenorlied
Definition
Secular song cultivated in Germany in the 16th century in which the principal melody appears in the tenor voice with three contrapuntal voices surrounding it
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Villancico
Definition
Principal genre of Spanish song in the Renaissance. Equivalent to French virelai AbbaA
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Villanella
Definition
General term used to describe a variety of Italian song types of the 16th and early 17th centuries. These songs were often to bawdy texts and featured predominantly chordal textures.
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Chorale
Definition
A hymn, either in its harmonized form or as a melody alone. Chorales are associated particularly with the congregational music of the Protestant Reformation.
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Anthem
Definition
Designation given to many motet-like works on English texts from the 16th century onward. The full anthem is for chorus throughout. The verse anthem alternates choral passage with passages for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
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Intabulations
Definition
Arrangement for keyboard or for a plucked stringed instrument-lute, guitar, vihuela, cittern, pandora-of a work originally writeen for voices
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Ricercar
Definition
A freely composed work that is improvisatory and preludial in character, often for lute or keyboard. By mid 16th century was identified with polyphonic works for keyboard or for instrumental ensembles.
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Diminution
Definition
Speeding u of note values within a theme that has already been presented
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Musica Reservata
Definition
Music written for connoisseurs and not intended for wide distribution. Hard for listeners and players; involved unconventional elements of notation, chromaticism, and the use of ancient Greek genera.
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Mannerism
Definition
A style that emphasized extreme dissonance, unusual harmonic progressions, and exaggerated word-painting.
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Antecedent
Definition
Tonic to Dominant progression
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Consequent
Definition
Dominant to Tonic progression
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Reprise
Definition
Unit of music to be repeated in performance immediately after it has been first presented. Two reprises are binary form.
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Binary Form
Definition
Two reprises, AABB
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Syntatic Form
Definition
Opposite of Paratactic

One or more ideas unifies all sections
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Motets made for...
Definition
Liturgical, Occasional, Devotional
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Chanson
Definition
Much was Rondeau

More homogenous texture, unified rhythm, much pervading imitation
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Portative Organ
Definition
for in home use

player played and worked bellows
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Clavichord
Definition
Came from monochord

Portable, quite, and capable of being played solo

Operator could control note from beginning to end
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Virginal
Definition
Smaller harpsichord

Strings ran at right angles to keys
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Viola da braccio
Definition
Viol played in arms
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Viola da gamba
Definition
Viol played between legs or held upright on lap
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Viol
Definition
Sloped shoulder, flat back, fretted fringerboards, six strings tuned in fourths except maj 3rd between middle strings
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Shawm
Definition
Often played in groups of 3 for dances and processions

Double reed
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Crumhorn
Definition
Double reed instrument
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Sackbut
Definition
Like trombone of today, brass instrument
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Italian Madrigal
Definition
Through composed

Easy to play

Word painting

Gave way to Villanella
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Types of Instrumental Music
Definition
Intabulations
Abstract works/Freely Composed-toccata, ricercar, fantasia, prelude
Variations-embellished idea in different ways
Dance Music
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Dance Music
Definition
pavane
passamezzo
bouree
saltarello
galliarde
volta
branle
moresca
rondo
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Period phrase structure
Definition
modular units of equal length
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