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Period: Oct 10, 1450 to Oct 10, 1521
Josquin des Prez
-Used Phrygian mode in Missa Pange Lingua (written in 1520)
-Composer of the Renaissance era
-Considered the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music-Palestrina style -
Period: Oct 10, 1517 to
Gioseffo Zarlino
Wrote Great Treatise (Le Istitutioni Harmoniche) -
Oct 10, 1520
Missa Pange Lingua
-Written by Josquin des Prez
-Used Palestrina Style-old notation style of writing -
Period: Oct 10, 1525 to
Palestrina
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Period: Oct 10, 1540 to
Giovanni Artusi
Birth/Death -
Oct 10, 1558
Le Istitutioni Harmoniche
-Treatise made by G. Zarlino during the Renaissance (first great age of counter point -
Period: Oct 10, 1562 to Oct 10, 1563
Missa Papae Marcelli
-Written using cpt
-Mass Palestrina used to demonstrate how church music could be (saved church music) -
Period: Oct 10, 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
Birth/Death -
Period: Oct 10, 1568 to
Adriano Banchieri
Birth/Death -
Period: Oct 10, 1578 to
Agostina Agazzari
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Delle Imperfettiono Della Moderna Musica
-Written by Artusi -
Euridice
-G. Caccini also wrote
-An opera that used new style/texture (figured bass started-Baroque)
-Polarized texture: important soprano and bass lines, middle alto and tenor were used as fillers -
Le Nuove Muische
-Guilo Caccini wrote-beginning of Baroque Period
-Figured bass was used
-Layered instrumentation, equality of voices-upper and lower more important than middle voices -
"Cruda Amarilli" Fifth Book of Madrigals
-By Monteverdi
-Used dissonance in a different way than what was expected by counterpoint
-People like G. Artusi genuinely disliked these works
-Monteverdi states that text must be considered when writing the music and dissonance should be used in appropriate places -
Del Sonare Sopra 'l basso con tutti li stromenti
-Agostina Agazzari wrote
-Of playing Upon a Bass With All Instruments-translation -
Conclusioni Nel Suono Del L'organo
-Written by Banchieri, someone who didn't believe in figured bass (disagreed wiht Agostina Agazzari) -
Period: to
Johann Joseph Fux
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Period: to
Jean Phillipe Rameau
Birth/Death -
Traite de l'harmonie
-Written by Jean Phillipe Rameau, based on his own musical practise
-Talked about fundamental bass, root progression, chordal inversion and functional tonality -
Gradus ad Parnassum
-Fux's book on Palestrina Style-his rules and his way of teaching -
Period: to 524
Boethius
-Broke music into 3 types:
-Musica mundana (macro level-music of the spheres: silent, celesial music, hear but can't understand, held the universe in order)
-Musica humana: human level-human body/mind relationship, 4 humors)
-Musica instrumentalis: actual instrument music-held in the lower regard by Boethius. These were only used to see relationship between other kinds of music
-These made up De Institutione Musica (treatise written in the early 500s/6th century by Boethius)