Hildegard von Bingen
Scivias
Marian movement
1000-1400
Romanesque
850-1150
Perotin & Leonin
organum
motet
take a hook of a famous chant and repeat it over and over
tenere
underlying voice in a motet
Machaut & Phillippe de Vitry
Ars Nova
Renaissance
1450-1600
word painting
depiction of text via musical devices
“Fair Phyllis”
John Farmer — English Madrigal
a capella
meant to be performed in intimate spaces, without instruments — unaccompanied voices
cantus firmus
takes place of organum’s use of chant fragments; unites entire mass cycle
Netherlander composers
Josquin de Prez & Palestrina
Council of Trent
1545-1563
Pope Marcellus Mass
Palestrina
Florentine Camerata
Counts Bardi and Corsi; birth of opera
Puis qu’en oubli
Machaut
Josquin
Ave Maria…vigo serena
Palestrina
Pope Marcellus Mass
Three Dances
Susato
Monteverdi
Ecco Mormorar L’onde
Farmer
Fair Phyllis
Peri & Caccini
first meaningful opera writers