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Franco-Flemish Composers
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Franco-Flemish Composers
Johannes de Ockeghem (1420-1497)
Missa Prolationum
Antoine Busnoys (1430 - 1492)
Other Characteristics of Early Franco - Flemish
mensuration canon - same musical material, but all voices move at a different speed (or prolation)
Cantus - tempus imperfectum, minor
Altus - tempus perfectum, minor
Tenor - tempus perfectum, major
Bass - tempus imperfectum, major
- melodic singeable parts
- free treatment of cantus firmus
- occasional use of 5th (quintus) and 6th (sextus) voices
- mixtures of polyphony and homophony
- Jacobus Obrecht (d. 1505) - pupil of Busnoys
unison canons
motifs of imitation
predictable cadences
ornamented cantus firmus (paraphrase)
- Heinrich Isaac (d.1517)
appointments in Rome, Florence, and Flanders
mixtures of Flemish style in each location
cadences on triads (not 5ths)
specific text underlay
Coralis Constantinus - 3 volumes ALL Mass Propers
Given: formes fixes (rondeau)
treble dominated style
smooth melodies
triple time
Derived:longer melodies (scalar)
wider ranges
imitation
equality of voices
meter shifts
Other examples are concise - latter composers used the technique to show mastery of counterpoint (eg. Bach, Shostakovitch, Schoenberg)
Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521)
- universal acclaim
Petrucci's Publications
widely travelled and in demand
grouped with Da Vinci, Raphael
Martin Luther's example
ongoing performance tradition
- Masses on Cantus Firmus
- Motets and Chansons
freely composed
text declamation
textual depiction/word painting
text expression
abandonment of formes fixes
poetic texts