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organizes beats in groups |
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3 principle chords: I tonic, IV subdominant, V dominant |
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single melodic line with similar accompaniment |
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several melodies together forming harmony |
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unaccompanied vocal music |
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served as basis for all music through the Middle Ages and Renaissance with virtual monopoly on learning by Monks |
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sacred, vocal, a cappella, and modal |
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set to Latin texts,
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official music of Roman Catholic Church in Medieval period,
monophonic in texture and sang a capella
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Medieval Troubadours and Trouveres |
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12th and 13th century poets/musicians,
left a large body of secular songs that became more important than sacred music and not based on Chant melodies,
they celebrated love and chivalry but were often drinking songs
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voice types emerged from development of vocal teaching by monks in medieval period |
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Female: soprano, mezzo, contralto(deep)
Male: tenor, baritone, bass
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Renaissance period texture |
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Mass: based on the five sung prayers of the ordinary: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
Motet:polyphonic chordal work set to a sacred Latin text
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Renaissance Secular Music |
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1520 the Italian madrigal emerged: a piece of several voices set to a short poem about love, combines homophonic and polyphonic textures and uses text painting and unusual harmonies |
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Renaissance instrumental music |
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still subordinate to vocal music, but increasingly emancipated from vocal modes. music was specifically written for instruments and dancing |
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versatile and popular plucked string Renaissance instrumennt played in the home and for outdoor festivals |
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