Music History Review - Part 2

By JStoddart
  • Period: 1363 to 1477

    Burgundian Court

    • Produced several generations of great singers and composers
    • Trained at the choir school at the Cathedral of Cambrai
    • Supplied singers and composers to all of Europe
    • The first international musical style
      • The “Franco-Flemish Style”
  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume DuFay

    Biography
    - 1st great Renaissance composer
    - In Burgundy
    - Trained at Cambrai
    - Served at the Papl Chapel
    - Canon at Cambrai (Italy)
    Works
    1. Wrote in all Renaissance genres
    - Motets
    - Chansons
    2. Influenced by English, French and Italian music
    - ”International Style”
    3. Machaut Comparisons
    - Lived about 100 years apart
    - Both served at the cathedral at Cambrai
  • Period: 1400 to 1497

    Jean Ockeghem

  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • 1417

    End of Catholic “Great Schism”

  • 1425

    NAWM 33: Quam pulchra es (Dunstable)

    • Motet or cantelina
  • 1430

    NAWM 37a: “Se la face ay pale” (DuFay)

    • Ballade
    • DuFay
    • 1430’s
  • 1450

    Invention of Printing Press

  • 1450

    End of Byzantine Empire

    Constantinople Falls to the Ottoman Turks
  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin Desprez

    • Secular Music - The stucture of music largely determined by the text. One line of text = One corresponding cadence. This helps to follow the words of the music.
    • Chanson
    • Motet
  • 1453

    End of 100 Years War

    France expels the English
  • 1453

    NAWM 37b: Missa Se la face ay pale: Gloria (DuFay)

    • Cantus-firmus Mass
    • DuFay
    • ca. 1453)
  • 1480

    NAWM 44: Ave Maria … virgo serena (Desprez

    • Motet
    • ca. 1480-85
  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

  • 1492

    Columbus encounters the New World

  • Period: 1509 to 1564

    John Calvin

  • 1515

    NAWM 45: Missa Pang Lingua: Kyrie & Credo (Desprez)

    • Paraphrase mass
    • ca. 1515
  • Period: 1515 to 1570

    Tielman Susato

    • NAWM 66
  • 1517

    Protestant Reformation Begins

    • Early 16th Century
    • Central and Western Europe enter a century of religious wars
    • Theological dispute that mushroomed into a rebellion against the authority of the Catholic Church
    • Started in Wittenberg, Germany with Martin Luther (1483-1546)
    • 95 theses against Catholic doctrines not supported by scripture
    • Spread to most of northern Europe
    • 3 Main Branches
      1. Lutheran
      2. Calvinist
      3. Church of England
  • 1520

    NAWM 43: Mille regretz (Desprez)

    • Chanson
    • ca. 1520
  • 1524

    NAWM 58: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland & Einfeste Burg (Luther)

    • Chorales
    • 1524, 1529
  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Da Palestrina

  • 1526

    Martin Luther publishes his German Mass

  • Period: 1526 to 1549

    Luis de Narváez

    • NAWM 68
  • 1527

    NAWM 51: Tant que vivray (Sermisy)

    • Chanson
  • 1534

    Church of England splits from Rome

    King Henry VIII
  • 1538

    NAWM 68: From Los seys libros del Delphin (Narváez)

    • Intabulation and variation set
  • 1538

    NAWM 47: Il bianco e dolce cigno (Arcadelt)

    • Madrigal
  • Period: 1540 to

    William Byrd

  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent (Counter Reformation)

  • Period: 1545 to

    Anthony Holborne

    • NAWM 67
  • Period: 1550 to

    Giuliano Caccini

  • 1551

    NAWM 66: Dances from Danserye: Pavane and Galliard La dona and Moresca La morisque (Susato)

    • Pavane
    • Galliard
    • Moresca
  • 1551

    NAWM 59: Psalm 134 - Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur (Bourgeois)

    • Loys Bourgeois (ca. 1510-ca. 1561)
    • Metrical Psalms
  • 1553

    Queen Mary I of England restores Catholocism

  • Period: 1557 to

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    • NAWM 70
  • 1560

    NAWM 63: Pope Marcellus Mass: Credo and Agnus Dei I (Palestrina)

    • Mass
  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

  • 1570

    NAWM 64: O magnum mysterium & Missa O magnum mysterium - Kyrie, Gloria, and Sanctus (de Victoria)

    • O magnum mysterium
      • Motet (ca. 1570)
    • Missa O magnum mysterium: Kyrie, Gloria, and Sanctus
      • Imitation mass (ca. 1580s)
  • 1580

    NAWM 61: Sing joyfully unto God (Byrd)

    • Anthem
    • 1580s-90s
  • Period: to

    Heinrich Schütz

  • NAWM 49: Solo e pensoso (Marenzio)

    • Madrigal
    • 1590

  • NAWM 72: Vedrò ‘l mio sol (Caccini)

    Solo Madrigal

  • NAWM 71: Cruda Amarilli (Monteverdi)

    Madrigal
  • Period: to

    Biagio Marini

  • NAWM 70: Canzon septimi toni a 8 (Gabrieli)

    • Ensemble Canzona

  • NAWM 67: The Night Watch & The Fairie-round (Holborne)

    • Consort dances
      • almain
      • galliard

  • NAWM 57: Flow, my tears (Dowland)

    • Air or lute song
  • Period: to

    Baroque Era

  • NAWM 56: As Vesta was (Weelke’s)

    Madrigal

  • NAWM 74: L’Orfeo (Monteverdi)

    Opera

  • NAWM 78: In ecclesiis (Gabrieli)

    Sacred concerto (motet)

  • NAWM 84: Sonata IV per il violino per sonar con due corde (Marini)

    Sonata for violin and continuo

  • NAWM 81: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich (Schütz)

    Sacred Concerto
  • Period: to

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

  • Period: to

    Arcangelo Corelli

  • Period: to

    Alessandro Scarlatti

  • Period: to

    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

  • Period: to

    François Couperin

  • Period: to

    Antonio Vivaldi

  • NAWM 96: Trio Sonata in D Major (Corelli)

    Trio Sonata
  • Period: to

    George Frideric Handel

  • NAWM 85: Armide: Excerpts (Lully)

    Opera

  • NAWM 89: Suite No. 3 in A Minor (Jacquet de la Guerre)

    Keyboard suite

  • NAWM 94: Clori vezzosa, e bella: Conclusion (Scarlatti)

    Cantata

  • NAWM 98: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor (Vivaldi)

    Violin Concerto

  • NAWM 107: Giulio Cesare: Act II, Scenes 1-2 (Handel)

    Opera

  • NAWM 99: Vingt-cinquième ordre (Couperin)

    Keyboard suite