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Music History 1 - Medievil and Renissance |
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Bleh- yesh im bored and in the middle of doing my Music history Homework and Revisionl.... ... hmph.
just thought i'd be rather random and post some of my study notes here, so maybe i can come back and look (since Microsoft Word is totally stuffed on my computer )
JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Born in france in the 1450's but some sources do say he was born in the Duchy of Burgundy in modern Belgium.
1477-1478 h elived in the chapel of Rene de Anjou in Aix En Provence
1489 he sang in the ducal chapel in Milan
He wrote over 18 Masses, 100 Motets and 70 Secular music works
considered "The Best composer of our time and the "Father of muisicans' by fellow composers in the late 15th Century
Martin Luther said "He is the master of the notes. They must do as he wills; as for the other composers they have to do the notes will"
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TEXT EXPRESSION.
Humanism was a concept that brought music closer to the literary arts. There was a renewed intrest in the studey of grammar, rhetoric poetry , history and philosophy. Words inspired melodies , rhythms, textures and a mixture of consoncance and dissonance. The general rule of text settting was to follow the rhythm of speech and not violate the natural accentuation of syllables.
The music of De Profundis Clamavi is deeply expressive of its text and is shaped to it on many levels.
The music has been shaped to the form, rhythm and accentuation and meaning of the text.
Following from the success and influence of Josquins music . Adrian willaert led a movement in the 1540's towards emotional expression in music. in 1558 Gioseffo Zarlino worte a book on how to express and set the words of a text to music effectivley and faitherfully. Josquins music was polyphonic and imitative techniques were used . it also had direct consequences for the later Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods.
Many instrumental pieces still traditional or improvised the medievil division between loud and soft instruments continued.
TYPES OF MUSIC
Dance Music Doubling or Replacing voices in instrumental music Arrangements of Vocal music
LATE RENIASSANCE DEVELOPMENTS:
Musiic specifically composed for voices with instruments came about, and independent genres of intrumental music for both solo and consort music aswell.
Instruments
Hurdy-gurdy, Viols, Violin, Lutes, Wihuela, Cittren , Recorders, Flutes, Shawns, Crumhorns , Rackett. Sackbutts bagpipes, Cornett, Trumpets, Harpsicords, Spinets Virginals, Clavicord, Organs.
Many instruments were played in consorts (groups) of different sized instruments of the same type (e.g Strings, woodwinds, brass etc ) or borken consorts of instruments of different types.
Bunny Sky · Mon Jun 13, 2005 @ 04:20am · 0 Comments |
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