1. Sacred Genre of the Renaissance (1450-1600)
MASS
Service music of Church
MOTET
Based on sacred Latin text
Exams -
based on material from Introduction,Study Guides,
the 2 midterms are not cumulative, but the final covers material from the entire course.
Tests are on computer sheets: matching. true false. -- terms and definitions, associations of the composers with periods or movements.
I have schedulled reviews during the course
Quizzes- are similar to the tests, they serveas a check-up on your progress.

2. Important composers of the Renaissance
Guillaume Dufay ( )
Josquin des Prez (c )
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c )

3. RENAISSANCE MASS concentration on the Ordinary
texts do not change
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Secular Influences
using non-religious songs in the Mass

4. Guillaume Dufay( )
Born in Burgundy, worked in Italy, then returned to Cambrai

6. Kyrie from L’homme armé Mass
By Dufay
Kyrie: first musical part of the Mass
Text in three parts: Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy
Sound: different from Medieval music?
Texture: homophonic or polyphonic?
Meter: triple or duple?

7. Kyrie from L’homme armé Mass
Listening Guide 7
Based on popular tune called L’homme armé
Use of preexisting tune is called CANTUS FIRMUS
Slow notes, in tenor voice
Three sections or music: (Lord have mercy-Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy)

8. Josquin Desprez
(c )
Another Flemish composer who worked in Italy:
Ducal chapel at Milan,
Sistine chapel in Rome
Ferrara
Later returned north-provost of church of Notre Dame in Conde sur ‘Escaut.

10. Josquin Desprez
One of the first composers to have his works widely performed throughout Europe
Emerging concept of genius

11. Josquin, Ave Maria… Virgo serena
Listening guide 8
Motet
A sacred work in Latin
Different Textures
IMITATION: a melody is presented in one voice and restated in another
homophony: melody and accompaniment

12. Josquin Ave Maria
homophonic writing used to bring out the text in specific places-- as a type of musical rhetoric
At Hail, true virginity
at the personal prayer-- “Remember ME”
Different combinations of voices
How is the sound different from that of Medieval music?

13. Church History Protestant reformation Counter-Reformation
Early 16th century
Counter-Reformation
Response of Catholic church to reformation
Council of Trent
Reform movement in Catholic Church
Decided that text should be understood in church music

14. Giovanni Palestrina Most important composer of late Renaissance
Italian, worked in Rome at Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s.

16. Pope Marcellus Mass (Gloria)
By Palestrina
The Legend of Palestrina
Six voice texture (full sound)
Clear text setting
Ideals of Council of Trent ( )
Different combinations of voices
Often uses reduced voicing