1. REMINDER: Listening Test # 1 Friday, 27 Oct 2017
MUH Music History I
11/13/2018
REMINDER: Listening Test # 1 Friday, 27 Oct 2017
Covers Any Listening Examples from Chapters 1 through 5
(see Review Sheets)
DAY 21 (23 Oct 17)

2. Chapter Six
Music in the 16th Century

3. (Italian) Madrigal
Revival of Petrach’s ( ) poetry - piacevolezza e gravità
Serious poetry in through-composed settings
Over 2,000 (!!) collections
Emphasis on text declamation
Word painting/Text painting
Jacob Arcadelt, “Il bianco e dolce cigno” [Anth I/48] - Madrigali a 4 voci, Libro 1 (No.1) (1539)
Text painting: “piangendo” [“weeping”] and “di mille mort’” [“a thousand deaths”] (cf. “la petite mort”)

4. Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565) Franco-Flemish - active chiefly in Italy
Multiple collections of madrigals published
Widely admired for progressive harmony & text painting (second practice)
“Da le belle contrade” (Anth I/49), 5vv publ. 1566

5. Maddalena Casualana (c. 1544-1583)
Female singer, lutenist & composer
66+ madrigals
3 published collections
1st WOMAN in Western music to be published!
“Morir non può il mio cuore” (1566) (Anth I/50)
Bio in text (p. 159)

6. Luca Marenzio (1553/4-1599) Italian singer/composer
In Rome (1570s-1586) - Cardinal Madruzzo -Cardinal d’Este
Ten books of madrigals
Close attention to text - short phrases (separately) - word painting
“Solo e pensoso” (1599) (Anth I/51)

7. “T’amo mia vita” (Anth I/52)
Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( ) (1599) - virtuosity - 1,2, or 3 voices - Concerto delle donne (3 Ladies of Ferrara)
Carlo Gesualdo (c ) 5vv - Madrigals, Book V (1609)
Claudio Monteverdi ( ) 5vv - Madrigals, Book V (1605) w/ bass

8. Secular Song (elsewhere)
Vernacular (Native languages)
France – Chanson
Italy – Frottola and Madrigal
Germany – Tenorlied (or simply Lied)
Spain – Villancico (standard poetic form)
England – Ayre (Aire)
All “Songs”

9. England
Musica Transalpina (1588) - Italian madrigals - English translations
Thomas Morley ( ) - complains….but….. - “Now is the month of Maying” [Anth I/56]
John Farmer, “Fair Phyllis”
John Dowland ( ) - Lute Song [Anth I/58] - “Come Heavy Sleep”