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Period: 1390 to 1453
Dunstable
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Influenced musical style in Europe -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Dufay
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-First Renaissance composer -
Period: 1420 to 1497
Ockeghem
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1430 to
Form
-Madrigals emerged in the 1540’s as a new modern genre and the forms were largely poetic.
-Strophic forms were common
-Many musical forms were still dictated by their poetic structures.
-Binary form became common in instrumental music. -
Period: 1430 to
Vocal/Instruments
-Loud(Haut): instruments were shawms, cornets, slide trumpet, sackbuts.
-Soft(Bas): Instruments were harps, vielles, lutes, psalteries, portative organs, travers flutes, and recorders.
-Percussion: kettledrums, bells of various sorts and cymbols
-Late renaissance harpsichord and clavichord rose in popularity and new repertoire of keyboard music emerged. -
Period: 1430 to
Renaissance Era
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Period: 1430 to
Genre
-Masses
-Motets
-Hymns
-Acapella; Not a genre but a new style of music. -
Period: 1430 to
Melody
-Melodies used wider leaps for the expression of text; were still conduct than disjunct.
-Top voice often became the bearer of melodic material
-Some genres contained a sung melody in the top voice. -
Period: 1430 to
Harmony
-Began to focus on 3rd and 6ths
-Chordal textures resulted in complete triads.
-Dissonances were discouraged and if used, it was prepared and resolved.
-Harmonic structure was still based on church modes. -
Period: 1430 to
Tone
Tonal system was modality -
Period: 1430 to
Major Historical Non-Musical Events
-Introduction of gun powder; signaled the end of the age of knighthood
-Development of the compass; voyages of discovery were now possible.
-Realism in art is reflected in painting
-Efforts to build palaces instead of churches. -
Period: 1435 to 1511
Tinctois
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Music theorist; wrote about contemporary music
-Wrote the first dictionary of musical terms. -
Period: 1450 to 1521
Prez
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Most revered composer -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Isaac
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Prolific German -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Willaert
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Father of text expression -
Period: 1505 to
Tallis
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Wrote a 40 part Motet. -
Period: 1521 to
De Monet
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1524 to
Da Palestrina
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1525 to
Palestrina
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1532 to
Di Lasso
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1543 to
Byra
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1548 to
De Victoria
Composer of Renaissance Era -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
Not a composer of this era, however he did have composed music for all of his plays.