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-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Influenced musical style in Europe -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-First Renaissance composer -
Composer of Renaissance Era
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-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. -
-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. -
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-Masses
-Motets
-Hymns
-Acapella; Not a genre but a new style of music. -
-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. -
-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. -
Tonal system was modality
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-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. -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Music theorist; wrote about contemporary music
-Wrote the first dictionary of musical terms. -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Most revered composer -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Prolific German -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Father of text expression -
-Composer of Renaissance Era
-Wrote a 40 part Motet. -
Composer of Renaissance Era
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Composer of Renaissance Era
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Composer of Renaissance Era
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Composer of Renaissance Era
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Composer of Renaissance Era
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Composer of Renaissance Era
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Not a composer of this era, however he did have composed music for all of his plays.