Renaissance Music Quiz

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Genre: Lute ayres

-second major secular genre in Elizabethan England -expressive solo songs accompanied by lute -progressive genre, looks ahead to the solo "monody" of early Baroque -strophic

Title: Flow My Tears

Composer: Dowland Genre: Lute Ayres -strophic, singer responsible for the verses through expressive nuance!

Title: Moro Lasso

Composer: Gesualdo Genre: Italian Madrigal - text emphasizes extreme grief and pain, each word depicted with extreme contrasts! An "avant-garde" style, far ahead of its time.

Title: Ein Feste Burg (Cover)

Composer: Johann Walte Genre: Chorale (hymmn) -melody played in the tenor with additional parts surrounding the melody!

Title: Fair Phyllis I saw

Composer: John Farmer Genre: English Madrigal -very funny/casual

Title: El Grillo e Bon Cantore

Composer: Josquin Genre: National style-- Itlian frottola -several singers all at one time, music sounds like a cricket!

Title: Ave Maria

Composer: Josquin Genre: motet -imitative counterpoint (a few sections were homophonic while some were in paired voices); "ars perfecta;" emphasis on early music publishing—first piece presented in Pertucci's* first published music book!

Title: Ein Feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress)

Composer: Martin Luther Genre: Chorale (hymn) -German text-- simple; monophonic; simple music for the congregation; conformation

Title: Cruda Amarilli

Composer: Monteverdi Genre: Italian Madrigal -very textured like Ave Marie, but still quite conservative; broke the "rules" of counterpoint; expressed feelings of the text; Monteverdi vs. Giovanni Artusi controversy Artusi believed Amarilli broke the musical science rules established by Josquin and Palestrina!; established the new baroque aesthetic in which unusual form and harmony can be used in serviced to expressive goals

Title: Pope Marcellus Mass

Composer: Palestrina Genre: Mass setting (Kyrie and Credo) -Why important: -Josquin's imitative polyphonic style made the text too difficult to understand! -Music served as models of counterpoint for generations to come! -Composers continued to be trained in the "stile antico" -Palestrina, the oldest composer whose works have been continuously performed!

Title: As Vesta Was...

Composer: Weekles Genre: English Madrigal (madrigalism) form: sectional, according to the text texture: six part choir: two sopranos, one alto, two tenors, and one bass

Title: Pavana Lachrymae

Composer: William Byrd Genre: Instrumental Solo based on a Pavan (slow dance) -form: theme and variations -an arrangement of Flow My Tears for the harpsichord solo -divided into 3 section label A,A', B, B', C, C'

Title: Kyrie

Part of the Pope Marcellus Mass Composer: Palestrina -Expanded 6 voice chorus (2 tenor parts, 2 bass parts) -Polyphonic—Imitation structure -Melismatic—only one syllable spread across multiple notes -A capella -Form: ABA -smooth, stepwise motion in his melodic lines

Title: Credo

Part of the Pope Marcellus Mass Composer: Palestrina -LOTS OF TEXT! -Homophonic texture (different sets of different singers) -Antiphonal—uses multiple alternating performing groups/ singers -6 singers—2 groups of 4 voices that continue to change, or all sing together

English Madrigals

imported from Italy in 1588, evolved away from its Italian roots. Less serious, madrigalism

Genre: Motet

any piece of Latin intended for Church, NOT something sang weekly!

Italian Madrigals

secular Italian genre in 4 or 5 parts, with one singer per part. They were Italian texts of high literary quality, often drawn from poetry. Compositional techniques were drawn from sacred music. The structures were usually imitative polyphony or chordal homophony.


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