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The Evolution of Song
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The Evolution of Song
Part 2: The Renaissance
What was the
Renaissance?
- What do you already know about the Renaissance?
- What does the word mean?
- Where did it start?
- Any useful new inventions? (Let's find at least 3)
Madrigal:
"My Bonny Lass She Smileth"
- Thomas Morley
Renaissance
- Renaissance = Rebirth
- 14th century Italy
- *Music is later!
- Time of humanism:
- Art and literature
- Reformation
- Scientific advancement: Printing press, submarines, clocks, glasses, gunpowder, compass, microscope
- Nonsense syllables (fa-la-la)
- Earthly love
- Amateur music-making
Mass:
Pope Marcellus Mass
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
What did it sound like?
Today:
- What was the Renaissance?
- What did it sound like?
- Juicy details
- Adheres to "rules" of composition
- Imitative
- Consonance, dissonance, and suspensions
Lute Song:
Flow, my tears
- John Dowland
- All the masses!
- Madrigals
- Amateur music-making, word-painting, innocent to saucy
- Lutheran Chorales
- Congregational, familiar melodies
- Lute songs
- Stunning choral works (Palestrina)
- A 40-voice motet?!
Review!
- Minor key
- Solo voice with lute
- Word painting - "down" = downward notes on the lute
Last Class:
- Gregorian chant = Pope Gregory, church music, single line chant melodies
- Medieval music = More textures and genres (organum), sacred and secular, instruments like hurdy gurdy, composers like Hildegard von Bingen
The Juicy Details!
Renaissance Style:
- Increasing complexity (imitative writing, rules of counterpoint)
- Amateur music-making (madrigals and congregational)
- Lutes!
- Crazy Carlo Gesualdo
- Prince who murdered his wife and her lover
- Doesn't play by the rules (musical or otherwise)
- Josquin de Prez
- One of the first composers to master imitative writing
- Vandalizer?
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