1. Renaissance Music

2. Life in the Renaissance
The word renaissance literally means ‘rebirth.’
This was a time of great human creativity.
Exploration
Christopher Columbus
Curiosity and Individuality
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo
Shakespeare

3. Timeline of Events First printing press (1440)
First printed book- The Gutenberg Bible (1456)
Columbus reaches America (1492)
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa (1503)
Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet (1596)

4. Music in the Renaissance
Now music is done not just by monks, but church choirs made up of only males.
Boys would sing the higher parts and men would sing the lower parts.
These boys that would sing in church choirs were called Boy Sopranos

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6. Music in the Renaissance
Music in the royal court:
In middle ages, there was usually only one musician at each court, now there may be as many as 60 musicians (singers and instrumentalist.)
There was competition here as well to have the best musicians between kings, princes, and dukes.

9. Music in the Renaissance
Where woman couldn’t sing in church, they CAN sing in the royal courts.
Servants based on talent
A Capella music is vocal music that is unaccompanied by instruments.

10. Music in the Renaissance
Printing press was very important to composers!
Credit for work
Paid for work
Printing press was very important to all musicians
Beginners could buy music to learn how to play their instrument

11. Music in the Renaissance
Composers- paying close attention to music with words
Word painting is the musical representation of specific words
Descending from heaven might be shown with notes getting gradually lower
Running might be shown with a series of rapid notes.

12. As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending
Listening
As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending

13. HOT Question… Create three examples of word painting
Think of words or phrases
Explain how the music would match those words

14. Sacred Renaisannce Music
The mass is a polyphonic choral piece sung in Latin that is split up into five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
Masses always use the same words!
The motet is a polyphonic choral piece sung in Latin.

15. Mass vs. Motet

16. Music in the Renaissance
Many of the composers in the Renaissance came from an area of Europe called Flanders
Flanders was made up of the present day countries of Netherlands, Belgium and the northern part of France.
We call them Flemish composers

18. Josquin Desprez :
was a Flemish composer during the Renaissance that wrote motets, masses, and secular vocal music.
Born in Belgium, but lived his life in Italy working for dukes and the Pope.

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20. Giovanni Palestrina: was an Italian composer who wrote more music than any other Renaissance composer
Only wrote sacred music
104 masses and 450 sacred vocal songs.

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22. The Madrigal
The most important kind of secular music during this time was the Madrigal
A madrigal is a piece of vocal music set to the words of a poem that is usually about love.

23. Instruments in the Renaissance
Instrumental was still not as popular as vocal music, but it did become more important than in the middle ages.
Instrument music was used most often for dancing.
Many new instruments were invented during this time.

24. Lute- a Renaissance guitar

25. Shawm- a reed instrument like an oboe.

26. Recorder – small wind instrument that sounds closest to the flute

27. Sackbut- early form of a trombone

28. Cornett- early form of the trumpet

29. Viols- bowed string instruments in every size.

30. Regals- small portable pipe organs

31. Harpsichords- plucked string keyboard instrument

32. Listening Log Back to the Future by Alan Silvestri Lost by Zoe Keating
Paradise by Coldplay