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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Music of the Renaissance Period
Select a genre of music within the Renaissance period. Give a definition, describe it's characteristics, and discuss it's uses. Some examples are: Motet, Madrigal, Chanson, etc.
Please post by Friday, October 19th.
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The Renaissance was rich with new musical forms; all had a purpose and partituclar distinctons. The Mass has been known as an art for about eight hundred years--it was the inspiration for many of the Renaissance styles. The Motet is a sacred form. It uses a single Latin text. Popularly used in the praise of the Virgin Mary, the Motet spread all across Europe. It was intended for three or more voices and many times was based on a chant or cantus firmus. An example of this form is "Ave Maria...virgo serena" by Josquin des Prez. The Motet was a proclamation of the emotional and humanistic movement from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period.
The Renaissance Chanson was a secular form of music especially prevalent in the 16th century. It expressed emotions such as loving to religious and were set to verses of the French Renaissance poets. Chansons were normally written for three to four voices and did not contain specific repeated patterns. Josquin des Prez was not only a motet composer, but also a Chanson composer. A most famous Chanson was Mille regretz (A thousand regrets), which contained a variety of texture and emotion, in this instance dealing with the pain of leaving one's beloved. The Chanson was a common and popular genre of music throughout the Renaissance period.
Madrigal was another genre of renaissance music. It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished in the italian courts. This yexy consisted of a short poem of lyric or reflective character. It was full of emotional words for weeping, trembling, sighing, and dying. This text also included love, desire, humor, satire, political themes, and scenes and incidents of city and country life. This italian Madrigal presents a scene of Renaissance thought and feelong. The Renaissance came to fulll flower in the music of Claudio Monterverdi.
The Italian Madrigal genre of the Renaissance period served as a prominent form for secular music. It began, as Sabhya said, as a form of poetry for the aristocrats within the courts. It served to entertain the actual performers, developed into an art form which intertwined music and lyrics, and later transformed into an expression of the composer's emotions. The short verses reflected Renaissance influence and design with themes of love, politics, different modes of life which were expressed with diction that portrayed strong imagery and emotions. Claudio Monteverdi is recognized for his great utilization of these themes and his noted work with Italian Madrigal. This genre easily led into the Baroque period with its lavish chromatic harmony and dramatic style.
Composers of England developed the Italian Madrigal into a native art form called the English Madrigal. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in the late sixteenth century, madrigalists flourished, and this period of time became a reflection of the brilliance of the Elizabethan age. English composers preferred simpler texts in their madrigals, and even cultivated new humorous types of them. “Fair Phyllis” was a typical English Madrigal ad therefore had pastoral texts and a cheerful mood. Also characteristic of them were sectional repetitions, fragments of contrapuntal imitation that overlap and obscure the underlying meter, changes from homorhythmic texture to polyphonic, and cadences on weaker pulses in a measure. Madrigals were a great expression of emotions and feelings. English Madrigals in particular were very inspirational and included many new and changing techniques of the Renaissance period.
During the 15th century, the chanson was very popular in the courts of the Dukes of Burgundy and the kings of France. The chanson was known as a French polytonic song of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Some of its characteristics include a fixed form called rondeau, establishing a musical setting, and no set of fixed repeated patterns. Josquin des Prez, also a motet composer, uses the chanson to convey the emotions found in a text in sacred environments.
The Chanson motet was a popular genre in the fifteenth century during the Renaissance Period. Chansons were usally performed in the courts of dukes of Burgundy and kings of France. Written for three or four voices, the Chanson form of text was fixed (rondeau) to the courtly love poems of French Renaissance poets. The most well-known composers of this time were Johannes Ockghem, Gilles Binchois, Guilaume Du Fay, and Josquin des Prez.
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The Renaissance was rich with new musical forms; all had a purpose and partituclar distinctons. The Mass has been known as an art for about eight hundred years--it was the inspiration for many of the Renaissance styles. The Motet is a sacred form. It uses a single Latin text. Popularly used in the praise of the Virgin Mary, the Motet spread all across Europe. It was intended for three or more voices and many times was based on a chant or cantus firmus. An example of this form is "Ave Maria...virgo serena" by Josquin des Prez. The Motet was a proclamation of the emotional and humanistic movement from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance period.
The Renaissance Chanson was a secular form of music especially prevalent in the 16th century. It expressed emotions such as loving to religious and were set to verses of the French Renaissance poets. Chansons were normally written for three to four voices and did not contain specific repeated patterns. Josquin des Prez was not only a motet composer, but also a Chanson composer. A most famous Chanson was Mille regretz (A thousand regrets), which contained a variety of texture and emotion, in this instance dealing with the pain of leaving one's beloved. The Chanson was a common and popular genre of music throughout the Renaissance period.
Madrigal was another genre of renaissance music. It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished in the italian courts. This yexy consisted of a short poem of lyric or reflective character. It was full of emotional words for weeping, trembling, sighing, and dying. This text also included love, desire, humor, satire, political themes, and scenes and incidents of city and country life. This italian Madrigal presents a scene of Renaissance thought and feelong. The Renaissance came to fulll flower in the music of Claudio Monterverdi.
The Italian Madrigal genre of the Renaissance period served as a prominent form for secular music. It began, as Sabhya said, as a form of poetry for the aristocrats within the courts. It served to entertain the actual performers, developed into an art form which intertwined music and lyrics, and later transformed into an expression of the composer's emotions. The short verses reflected Renaissance influence and design with themes of love, politics, different modes of life which were expressed with diction that portrayed strong imagery and emotions. Claudio Monteverdi is recognized for his great utilization of these themes and his noted work with Italian Madrigal. This genre easily led into the Baroque period with its lavish chromatic harmony and dramatic style.
Composers of England developed the Italian Madrigal into a native art form called the English Madrigal. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in the late sixteenth century, madrigalists flourished, and this period of time became a reflection of the brilliance of the Elizabethan age. English composers preferred simpler texts in their madrigals, and even cultivated new humorous types of them. “Fair Phyllis” was a typical English Madrigal ad therefore had pastoral texts and a cheerful mood. Also characteristic of them were sectional repetitions, fragments of contrapuntal imitation that overlap and obscure the underlying meter, changes from homorhythmic texture to polyphonic, and cadences on weaker pulses in a measure. Madrigals were a great expression of emotions and feelings. English Madrigals in particular were very inspirational and included many new and changing techniques of the Renaissance period.
During the 15th century, the chanson was very popular in the courts of the Dukes of Burgundy and the kings of France. The chanson was known as a French polytonic song of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Some of its characteristics include a fixed form called rondeau, establishing a musical setting, and no set of fixed repeated patterns. Josquin des Prez, also a motet composer, uses the chanson to convey the emotions found in a text in sacred environments.
The Chanson motet was a popular genre in the fifteenth century during the Renaissance Period. Chansons were usally performed in the courts of dukes of Burgundy and kings of France. Written for three or four voices, the Chanson form of text was fixed (rondeau) to the courtly love poems of French Renaissance poets. The most well-known composers of this time were Johannes Ockghem, Gilles Binchois, Guilaume Du Fay, and Josquin des Prez.
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