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Time period of Renaissance
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1450-1600
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Renaissance
The "golden age" of unaccompanied choral music called _________. |
a cappella
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Musical representation of specific poetic images |
word painting
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The texture is chiefly _________. |
polyphonic
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The same melodic idea in turn, as in a round. |
Imitation among voices.
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recorders, viols, lute |
instruments used
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Renaissance Form
A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass. |
motet
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Renaissance Form
Is a polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. |
Mass
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A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love. Uses word painting and unusual harmonies more often. |
Madrigal-originated around 1520, during a creative explosion in Italian poetry
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Renaissance Form
Every cultivated person was expected to be skilled in ___. |
dance
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Two main fors of sacred music. |
motet and the mass. they are alike in stypl, but a mass is a longer composition.
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Master of Renaissance music, compositons include: masses, motets, and secular vocal pieces, strongly influenced other composers and were praised enthusiastically by music lovers. He was "Flemish", modern day Belgium |
Josquin Despriz (about 1440-1521)
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Among the most important Italian composers of this time. Devoted himself to music for the Catholic church. His work includes 104 masses and some 450 other sacred works |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (about 1525-1594)
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Among the finest English madrigalists, an organist and church composer |
Thomas Weelkes (about 1575-1623)
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Ave Maria...Virgo Serena CD1 TR 56-58 pg 82 |
Josquin Despriz
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Pope Marcellus Mass, Kyrie CD1TR59-61 pg85 |
Palestrina
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Written to honor Queen Elizabeth: As Vesta Was Decending pg 87 cd1tr62only |
Thomas Weelkes
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