1. Instrumental music Largely improvised Largely improvised Categories: Categories: Soft (stringed instruments) Vielle Loud (wind instruments) Shawm (ancestor of modern oboe) Sackbut (ancestor of modern trombone Also had percussion and organs

4. Instrumental Music Royal estampie #4 (listening guide 6) Royal estampie #4 (listening guide 6) Originally monophonic, new parts added in this recording (mainly a drone). Originally monophonic, new parts added in this recording (mainly a drone). Open and closed endings Open and closed endings

5. Guillaume de Machaut Reméde de Fortune Reméde de Fortune Dit(story) Here with added music and illustrations that are integral to the plot Story: Lover’s love for a lady, what he learns from this about Hope and Fortune (who are personified characters)

6. Renaissance (1450-1600) Age of Humanism (secular influence) Age of Humanism (secular influence) Rediscovery of ancient Greek writings New emphasis on reason and scientific inquiry Introduction of music printing (first print 1501) made music more widely available Rise of merchant (middle class) with amateur musicians

7. Renaissance New innovations in painting, realism, simultaneous depiction of a scene. New innovations in painting, realism, simultaneous depiction of a scene.

9. Sacred Genres of the Renaissance (1450-1600) MOTET MOTET Ave Maria … Virgo serena by Josquin Deprez MASS MASS Pope Marcellus Mass (Gloria) by Giovanni Palestrina

10. Josquin, Ave Maria… Virgo serena Textures Textures continuous imitation continuous imitation polyphony smooth because all voices have the same rhythm canon canon also a sign of compositional excellence passages of homophonic writing passages of homophonic writing to bring out the text-- as a type of musical rhetoric to bring out the text-- as a type of musical rhetoric at the personal prayer-- “Remember ME” at the personal prayer-- “Remember ME”

11. RENAISSANCE MASS concentration on the Ordinary concentration on the Ordinary (texts do not change) Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei Secular Influences Secular Influences using non-religious songs as a cantus firmus (a preexistent tune -- like chant in a motet or organum)