Medieval and Renaissance Review

"Father of Music" and "The English Palestrina" Introduced the Italian madrigal to England

Nonreligious music; when there is text, it is usually in the vernacular.

"MASTER of the NOTES" influential composer of Renaissance. Mastery of expression and technique

Guillaume de Machaut

What is the difference between a Motet and a Madrigal?

Singing in unison, texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.

"Master of Motet" Music is vigorous, passionate and earthy. Music was the most widely spread.

A short piece of sacred choral music, typically polyphonic and unaccompanied.

Monophony or Polyphony

Chant

Giovanni Palestrina

Created a system of lines + spaces, enabled musicians to write notes + melody. Created Solfege

French composer of the Medieval period. Biographical information exists. Wrote Secular music

Guillaume de Machaut

Music with two or more melodies blended together.

Monophony or Polyphony

Serious, restrained and designed for the worship service- conveys a spirit of devotion

Religious or spiritual music, for church or devotional use.

Leonin and Perotin

What is the difference between Monophony and Polyphony?

Repetition of a melody in a polyphonic texture in different voice parts

Monophony or Polyphony

The Silver Swan

Hildegard von Bingen

Hail Mary

Renaissance secular work, with or without instruments, lyric love poem; also popular in England

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, interest of classical learning in Greece and Rome

Renaissance composer. Roman School of musical composition. Returned church music to simplicity

Traveling poet-musicians at the castle and courts of Europe

William Byrd

Based on Gregorian chant.- contains secular words

Benedictine nun. One of the few identifiable women artists of the Middle Ages

Monophony or Polyphony

The earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm. Improved on Polyphony

Guido d'Arezzo

Giovanni Palestrina

single-line texture, or melody without accompaniment

Everyday language of ordinary people

Monophonic, unaccompanied, liturgical singing that takes its name from Pope Gregory the Great

Orlando de Lassus

Monophony or Polyphony

Perotin

Lassus

Motet

No standard notation, although some systems were used locally

Madrigal

The Breezes Perfume

Josquin des Prez

Sing Joyfully

Is a Renaissance form of sacred composition. Used in Churches