...Tatayana Riley Tatayana Riley “Two very different Cultures and ways of life, both having a tremendous impact on the world today.” “Two very different Cultures and ways of life, both having a tremendous impact on the world today.” Medeavil Times Vs Renaissance The comparison of their musical influences on our lives. Medeavil Times Vs Renaissance The comparison of their musical influences on our lives. Music has, since the beginning of time, been a part of our lives and forever will it be. Music is something that is subject to ongoing change. Have you noticed that musicians are always changing their image, their style their tone? As we dive deep into the past of music there are many periods on the timeline where musical styles vary. Two of those periods and maybe the most memorable are the middle ages, always referred to the as the Medieval times and the Renaissance Era. These are two very different times in our history but they also have some similarities. Let us further explore and explain just what separates the medieval times from the renaissance. More specifically we are going to compare Gregorian Chant and The name the Middle Ages is used to describe Europe between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance. Many people call this the dark ages because around this time over 2 million people were killed due to an illness they called the “Black Death”. Those 2 million people made up about 30 percent of the continent’s population. Although there were...
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...importance of human beings, their nature, and their place in the universe. During the Renaissance vocal music was more important than instrumental music, and composers during that period wrote music to enhance the meaning and emotion of the text. (Source: www.thinkquest.org) Renaissance composers often used word painting, a musical representation of specific human feelings of love,hate,fear etc Word painting was used in the madrigal, which is a piece that matches the word of the song with a musical setting.For example if the text had words like “rising,” “flying,” or “soaring” then the music would be fast upward scales. (Source: Jeremy Yudkin “Understanding Music”) The most famous composer that wrote such madrigals was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Palestrina, according to most Renaissance scholars, was a master composer. He started out in 1554 performing Masses and sang in the Cappella Sistina. (Source: w3.rz-berlin.mpg) He was so famous that he was actually asked to rewrite the church’s main plainchant books, but had to follow the Council of Trent’s guidelines. His most famous Mass, Missa Papae Marcelli, was in fact in line with the Counter Reformation, which he always was. His conservative attitude towards making the Catholic polyphonic music helped composers down the line to create new music for the church. Even though the polyphonic texts invaded the church, most of the Ordinary of the Mass, which is the Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Andus Dei stayed mostly...
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...composers whose work was distributed only in manuscript, which was really expensive. In addition, Josquin’s unique style, which would have been considered arrogant in the era before his time, was instead praised due to the evolving movements of the Renaissance. These movements, including humanism and Protestantism both valued individualism which allowed Josquin to flourish with his distinctive and innovative style. Although he is so greatly admired, many of his works have been proven not to be authentic and misattributed. In the New Grove catalogue of Josquin’s works, out of 315 compositions 136 are thought to be misattributed to him. This has been a central problem in the authenticity and chronology of Josquin’s output and career. In this paper, I will try to bring light to certain errors in the documentation of Josquin’s career that have been assumed to be a part of his life which have caused confusion not only in his biography but also in his career. In order to accomplish this I will 1) Discuss Josquin’s background of his life and career; 2) Examine why Josquin is so popular and widely revered and how that affected the documentation of his life; 3) Explore one of the compositions attributed to Josquin that is now thought to not be his to explain why it couldn’t have been written by Josquin but also consider how confusion could occur due to similar composing styles of his contemporaries. Josquin’s history continues to be revisited due to the inconsistency of his biography and...
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...Intro to Music Lit November 22, 2010 Palestrina Perhaps the most important composer of sacred music in the Renaissance period was Giovanni Palestrina. Palestrina’s works include over 100 mass settings (six books were published in his lifetime and seven more after his death), more than 250 motets, around 200 madrigals, 68 offertories, 65 hymns, and 35 magnificat settings. Palestrina is often said to be the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, and has been called the Prince of Music, primarily because of his 29 motets on the words from Canticle of Canticles. Palestrina was a great composer and had a lasting impression on the development of sacred compositions both in his time and long after his death. Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina was born in Palestrina, Italy, around the year 1525. Palestrina’s early history is virtually unknown. Some sources say he sang in the streets of Rome and offered products of his parent’s farm, others say he was a choirboy at St. Peter’s. The earliest known occupation of Palestrina was organist and choirmaster in his native city beginning in 1544. In 1551, he became maestro at the Capella Giulia. His first publication, a collection of masses, was published in 1554, the year before he went to the church of St. John Lateran to fill the position of maestro di capella. While there, he wrote many lamentations and magnificats, and also the famous “Improperia.” Their performance by the papal choir on Good Friday was ordered by Paul IV...
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...Matona mia cara Orlande de Lassus Matona, mia cara, is a song during the Renaissance by Orlande de Lassus. Matona mia cara is a polyphonic madrigal where two or more different melodic lines are combined, which distributes melodic interest among all the parts. Matona, mia cara is an example of an imitation which is one method that composers use to give unity and shape to the texture. The song starts with a female which is a mezzo-soprano and at the same time there is a bass male singer. This song is of strophic form while the music within the stanza offers contrast the repetition also binds the song together. I would describe the tempo of the song as moderato. The song never really speeds up or slows down, with the ending being a very strong cadence. This is actually quite a dirty song when translated, when translated from the original translation to English the song goes as follows: “My dear Lady, I'd love to sing a song below your window. I'm a lancer, and a good lad. Please listen to me, for I sing well, and I love you greatly, as a Greek does his capon. When I go hunting, hunting with a falcon, I'll bring you woodcocks as fat as a kidney. Though I do not know so many elegant phases, and know nothing of Petrarch, or the fountain of Helicon, if you'll have me, I'm no laggard; I'll make love to you all night long thrusting like a ram.” This song contains what I believe 4 different voices as instrumentation, there are not any other instruments. I really enjoyed listening...
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...GRADE 9 Learning Module MUSIC (Qtr 1 to 4) Compilation by Ben: r_borres@yahoo.com MUSIC LEARNER’S MATERIAL GRADE 9 Unit 1 To the illustrator: Using the blank map of Europe, place pictures of ALL the composers featured in EACH UNIT around the map and put arrows pointing to the country where they come from. Maybe you can use better looking arrows and format the composer’s pictures in an oval shape. The writers would like to show where the composers come from. I am attaching a file of the blank map and please edit it with the corresponding name and fill it the needed area with different colors. Please follow the example below. (Check the pictures of the composers and their hometowns in all the units.) Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Music Page 1 MUSIC LEARNER’S MATERIAL GRADE 9 Unit 1 Time allotment: 8 hours LEARNING AREA STANDARD The learner demonstrates an understanding of basic concepts and processes in music and art through appreciation, analysis and performance for his/her self-development, celebration of his/her Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and expansion of his/her world vision. key - stage STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of music and art of the Philippines and the world, through appreciation, analysis, and performance, for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision...
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