Petrucci
First to print with movable type
Tinctoris
Wrote rules for counterpoint

Leader in movement for ear over math

Dunstable
used panconsonance

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believed to live most of life in France

used triads-Quan pulchra

motets and masses

Du Fay
Used contenance angloise in cantilena motet Flos florum

masses based on single cantus firmus

last to use plainchant repertory

wrote mainly in French
-Missa se la face ay pale
-used secualr cantus firmus
-tenor not lowest voice

Ockegem
Missa Prolationum, uses all prolatios and a canon
Josquin de Prez
Ave Maria…Virgo Serena
-pervading imitation with points of imitation
-paratactic
-conjunct motion

El grillo
-antiphonal

Missa Fortuna desperta
-inversion and augmentation

Missa Pangelingua
-paraphrase

Cipriano de Rore
Wrote 16th Century Madrigals
Casulana
First female professional composer

Wrote only madrigals

Byrd
Composed for keyboards

Works published in first ever published collection of songs for keyboard in England

Dowland
Lute Songs

English Madrigals

Palestrina
Epitome of Renaissance polyphony

Used imitation

Orlande de Lassus
Used imitation

Wrte madrigals, masses, chansons, and Lieders

Wrote musica reservata

Used imitation

contenance angloise
Music dominated by thirds, fifths, and sixths
Fauxbourdon
Unnotated line that runs parallel to the uppermost of two notated lines, usually a fourth below
faburden
Interpolating lines above and below preexisting melody (done in England)

Fourth above and Thirds or Fifths below

Panconsonance
Music that uses many triads, limited dissonance, many thirds and fifths
Ave maria…Virgo Serena
Pervading imitation
Points of imitation
Paratactic Form
Conjunct Motion
Pervading Imitation
Series of musical ideas are repeated in all voices throughout an entire work or section of a work
Points of Imitation
Places where Pervading Imitation is used
Paratactic form
All sections unrelated

A B C D E F G

Cyclic Mass
a cycle of all movements of the Mass Ordinary integrated by a common cantus firmus or other musical device
Head motif
a thematic idea in multiple voices placed prominently at the beginning of a movement or section of a movement
Missa prolationum
Written by Ockeghem

Used all prolatios

Ostinato
Cantus Firmus in atleast one voice at all times
Cantus Firmus Mass
Mass built around a common cantus firums

Ostinato, Strict, and Free

Canonic Mass
At least one of every notated voice generates a second
Imitation Mass
Incorporate all voices of an existing work into fabric of new work or at least in the beginning
Frottola
Secular Italian vocal genre of the late 15th and 16th centuries. The texture tends to be chordal and the texts are often lighthearted, comic, or ironic.
Hemiola
Brief passage of duple-meter rhythms within an otherwise triple-meter context
Basse Dance
Type of dance popular in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The notated sources preserve only a series of long notes, around which other instruments were expected to improvise their own contrapuntal lines. Letters represented dance moves.
Parisian Chanson
Term coined by 20th century scholars to describe a type of song that emerged in the French capital during the 1520s, featuring predominantly chordal textures
Tenorlied
Secular song cultivated in Germany in the 16th century in which the principal melody appears in the tenor voice with three contrapuntal voices surrounding it
Villancico
Principal genre of Spanish song in the Renaissance. Equivalent to French virelai AbbaA
Villanella
General term used to describe a variety of Italian song types of the 16th and early 17th centuries. These songs were often to bawdy texts and featured predominantly chordal textures.
Chorale
A hymn, either in its harmonized form or as a melody alone. Chorales are associated particularly with the congregational music of the Protestant Reformation.
Anthem
Designation given to many motet-like works on English texts from the 16th century onward. The full anthem is for chorus throughout. The verse anthem alternates choral passage with passages for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
Intabulations
Arrangement for keyboard or for a plucked stringed instrument-lute, guitar, vihuela, cittern, pandora-of a work originally writeen for voices
Ricercar
A freely composed work that is improvisatory and preludial in character, often for lute or keyboard. By mid 16th century was identified with polyphonic works for keyboard or for instrumental ensembles.
Diminution
Speeding u of note values within a theme that has already been presented
Musica Reservata
Music written for connoisseurs and not intended for wide distribution. Hard for listeners and players; involved unconventional elements of notation, chromaticism, and the use of ancient Greek genera.
Mannerism
A style that emphasized extreme dissonance, unusual harmonic progressions, and exaggerated word-painting.
Antecedent
Tonic to Dominant progression
Consequent
Dominant to Tonic progression
Reprise
Unit of music to be repeated in performance immediately after it has been first presented. Two reprises are binary form.
Binary Form
Two reprises, AABB
Syntatic Form
Opposite of Paratactic

One or more ideas unifies all sections

Motets made for…
Liturgical, Occasional, Devotional
Chanson
Much was Rondeau

More homogenous texture, unified rhythm, much pervading imitation

Portative Organ
for in home use

player played and worked bellows

Clavichord
Came from monochord

Portable, quite, and capable of being played solo

Operator could control note from beginning to end

Virginal
Smaller harpsichord

Strings ran at right angles to keys

Viola da braccio
Viol played in arms
Viola da gamba
Viol played between legs or held upright on lap
Viol
Sloped shoulder, flat back, fretted fringerboards, six strings tuned in fourths except maj 3rd between middle strings
Shawm
Often played in groups of 3 for dances and processions

Double reed

Crumhorn
Double reed instrument
Sackbut
Like trombone of today, brass instrument
Italian Madrigal
Through composed

Easy to play

Word painting

Gave way to Villanella

Types of Instrumental Music
Intabulations
Abstract works/Freely Composed-toccata, ricercar, fantasia, prelude
Variations-embellished idea in different ways
Dance Music
Dance Music
pavane
passamezzo
bouree
saltarello
galliarde
volta
branle
moresca
rondo
Period phrase structure
modular units of equal length