music L1-3

• martin luther founded the protestant church
• renaissance period is sometimes reffered to as golden age of polyphony
• renaissance

  — year 1400-1600

  – meaning REBIRTH

  — secular music began to rise
• historical background of renaissance

  • birth of columbus and magellan
  • discovery of copernicus
  • height of shakespear drama
• in renaissance, vocal music was more important than instrumental music
• what describe renaissance music?

  • polyphonic in texture
  • more fuller, emotional
• what highlights the development of renaissance music?

  • simultaneous composition
  • development of word painting
  • music printing
  • rise of secular music
• word painting refers to the style of writing where the music and words illustrated the meaning of the text
• troubadours refers to a composer and performer from northern france during the medieval era
• trouveres - northern france version of the troubadour
• the language was occitan and old french in medieval music
• the period of the troubadours corresponded to the flowering of cultural life in province which lasted through the twelfth century and into the first decade of the 13th
• common topics of troubadour songs were war, chivalry, and love
• medieval era began with the fall of the roman empire and ended sometime early fifteenth century
• hildegard von bingen

  • german composer
  • wrote oldest surviving morality play “ordo virtutum“
• perotin

  • aka perotin the great
  • anonymous IV called him magnus, a mark of esteem
  • famous member of notre dame school of polyphony
• guillaume de machaut

  • french poet and composer
  • brother in law to a french king
• medieval instruments;

  • gemshorn
  • gittern
  • jaw harp
  • hurdy gurdy
  • dulcimer
  • vielle