Renaissance Era

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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

  • 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.