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Fourth Edition
Part 2
The Renaissance ca. 1425–1600
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The Renaissance
Recovery of knowledge lost during the Middle Ages
Humanism: movement that explored human interests and values through science, philosophy, and the arts
Renaissance composers united words and music more than ever before
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Music for Catholics and Protestants
Martin Luther began Reformation in Wittenberg, 1517
Monarchs determined faith and politics of their realm
Protestant composers wrote liturgical music in languages other than Latin
Catholic composers wrote music to inspire the faithful
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Music for Growing Markets
First contact with “New World” in fifteenth century
Demand for music and the arts grew
Ideal “Renaissance man” cultivated knowledge in full range of arts and sciences
Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier recommends learning to sing and play an instrument
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A New Sense of Individuality
Growing confidence in human reason and distinctiveness of individuals
Medieval drama tended toward allegory
Renaissance drama emphasized lifelike characters
Renaissance composers captured human emotions
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Information Technology 2.0
Invention of moveable metal type around 1450 changed the way information was transmitted
Print allowed information to spread quickly and cheaply
Some composers achieved international renown, even as publishers
By 1500, printing was a major enterprise throughout Europe
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Closer Look: A Renaissance Printing Press
Printing press made it possible to create thousands of copies of a text in a single process.
Individuals could now buy music for their own use at a reasonable price.
By 1500, printing became a major enterprise, and presses emerged across Europe.
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Chapter 7
Josquin des Prez
“The Cricket”
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Chapter 7 Learning Objectives
7.1 Discuss the whimsical nature of the text of ”The Cricket” and how Josquin’s setting reflects this nature.
7.2 Listen for the four equal voices characteristic of Renaissance style.
7.3 Recognize how Josquin’s music depicts specific words in the text of “The Cricket.”
7.4 Listen for the contrasting sections of the ABA structure.
7.5 Describe various performance options for “The Cricket.”
7.6 Discuss highlights of Josquin’s life.
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Listen to This First, “The Cricket”
Texture Listen for four distinct voices (polyphonic). Listen for passages in which voices sing in the same or different rhythms.
Word-Music Relationships Listen for examples of word painting, in which the sound of a cricket is imitated.
Form Listen for the return of the opening section. Listen for the contrast between the middle and outer sections.
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“The Cricket”
Composed: ca. 1500
Words and music enhance one another
Josquin wrote music as humorous as the text
Written to be played by any combination of voices and instruments
Renaissance songs seem more contemporary than music from the Middle Ages
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Texture: Polyphony in Four Voices
Four equal parts: soprano (highest), alto, tenor, bass (lowest)
Polyphony (equal-voice texture) is the norm for Renaissance music
Counterpoint governed how multiple melodies sound good when played together
Technique learned by writing new melodies against an existing one
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Word Painting: Music Imitates Text
In word painting, music “illustrates” the meaning of a word or phrase
Examples in “The Cricket”:
Long notes for cricket’s ability to “hold a long line”
Chirping, hiccupping sounds for “drinking”
Passionate, intense melisma for “love”
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Ternary Form
Form of text shapes the form of the music
Two broad sections in “The Cricket”
Cricket can hold a long note and sing of drinking
Cricket is different from birds, who also sing
Each section receives distinctive music
Opening section is repeated at end
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Connect Your Playlist: Word Painting
Find a piece that uses word painting.
Example: Taylor Swift, “Blank Space” (2014)
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Profile: Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)
An international celebrity in his time
So popular that publishers falsely attributed many pieces to him
Demanded higher salaries and freedom to work independently
Life shrouded in mystery
Born near border of France and Belgium, but worked mainly in Italy, including in Rome
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Expand Your Playlist: Josquin des Prez
Missa Pange Lingua
Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi
“Hail Mary…Serene Virgin”
“Virgin Nurse of God, Undefiled”
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Performance: Playing and Singing
Similar to songwriters today, Josquin wrote his music so that it could be performed in a variety of ways
With words
Without words
Arranged for all kinds of instruments and instrumental ensembles
Renaissance musicians were resourceful – used whatever combination of voices or instruments available
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Expand Your Playlist: The Music of Sounds (1/2)
Are all sounds music? Consider the following:
Birds
Clément Janequin’s “The Song of the Birds” (“Le chant des oiseaux,” early 16c)
Music of the Kalui of Papua New Guinea
Olivier Messiaen, “Awakening of the Birds” (“Réveil des oiseaux,” 1953)
Monkeys
Cecak or Ketjak (“Ramayana Monkey Chant”) from Bali (Indonesia)
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Expand Your Playlist: The Music of Sounds (2/2)
Trains
Arthur Honegger, Pacific 213 (1923)
Billy Strayhorn’s Take the “A” Train (1941)
Battle
Clément Janequin’s La Bataille (early 16c)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory (1813)
Pyotr IIich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1882)
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Chapter 8
Thomas Weelkes
“Since Robin Hood”
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Chapter 8 Learning Objectives
8.1 Define madrigal.
8.2 Situate the Morris dance and its music in Renaissance culture.
8.3 Listen for the relationship between the shifting meters of the poetry and the shifting meters of the music.
8.4 Listen for the instances of word painting in Thomas Weelkes’s “Since Robin Hood.”
8.5 Discuss the social role of musicians in private households in Elizabethan England.
8.6 Discuss Thomas Weelkes as a Shakespearean composer.
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Listen to This First, “Since Robin Hood”
Texture Listen for the three distinct voices (polyphonic).
Rhythm Listen for the shift from duple to triple meter in the middle of the piece.
Word-Music Relationships Listen to the descriptive nature of the music with words such as “to skip” and “trip it.”
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“Since Robin Hood”
Composed: 1608
Madrigal: musical setting of a text in a single strophe (stanza)
About an actual event in 1599
William Kemp danced from London to Norwich (140 miles) in nine days
Features stock characters: Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John, hobby horse
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Texture: Polyphony in Three Voices
Polyphony typical of Renaissance madrigal
All three voices move in same rhythm
Declamatory style makes text easier to hear
Uppermost voice uses a melody familiar to Shakespeare’s contemporaries
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Poetic Rhythm in Music
Rhythm of music matches the poetry
Iambic pattern: short-LONG
Trochaic pattern: LONG-short
Syncopation illustrates “to skip” in third section
1st section, iambic, duple meter
2nd section, trochaic, triple meter
3rd section, trochaic, duple meter
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Connect Your Playlist: Songs about Dancing
Find a piece that deals with the subject of dancing.
Example: Chubby Checker, “The Twist” (1960)
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Word Painting in the Renaissance Madrigal
Certain words are set graphically
Examples: “to skip” and “did trip it”
Different rhythms in each voice make these jump out of the texture
Word painting common in Renaissance madrigals
Enhances meaning and pleasure of poetry
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Profile: Thomas Weelkes (ca. 1575-1623)
Lived during age of Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and James I
Fascinated by Italian poetry and music
Imitated Italian models, used English poets (Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe)
Professional musician: educated at Oxford, wrote sacred and secular music
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Expand Your Playlist: The English Madrigal
William Byrd, “This Sweet and Merry Month of May”
John Farmer, “Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone”
Orlando Gibbons, “The Silver Swan”
Thomas Morley, “Now Is the Month of Maying”
Thomas Weelkes, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending”; “Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints”
John Wilbye, “Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes”
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Historical Context: Musicians as Spies
Sixteenth-century England went back and forth between Protestant monarchs and Catholic monarchs
Rumors and plots to overthrow the monarchy and invade the country
Playing an instruments provided perfect cover for gathering intelligence
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Expand Your Playlist: The Italian Madrigal
Italian madrigals of the early 16th century influenced the emergence of the English madrigal at the end of 16th century
Earliest examples of English-language madrigals were direct translations from the Italian.
Examples of composers of the English madrigal:
Jacob Arcadelt (ca. 1505-1568)
Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565)
Luzzaascho Luzzaschi (1545-1607)
Lucca Marenzio (1553 or 1554-1599)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
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Chapter 9
William Byrd
“Sing Joyfully”
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Chapter 9 Learning Objectives (1/2)
9.1 Discuss the challenges of setting sacred music polyphonically.
9.2 Define the genres of anthem and motet.
9.3 Listen for the imitative counterpoint in six voices in William Byrd’s “Sing Joyfully.”
9.4 Listen for and describe the relationship between the structure of the text and sectional form of the music in “Sing Joyfully.”
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Chapter 9 Learning Objectives (2/2)
9.5 Describe the options for performance of Renaissance choral music.
9.6 Discuss Byrd’s work as a Catholic composer and publisher in Protestant England.
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Listen to This First, “Sing Joyfully”
Texture Listen for the six distinct voices. Listen for passages in which musical ideas are imitated in quick succession.
Form Notice how each new section receives its own new musical idea.
Word-Music Relationships Listen for the feeling of the text’s key words such as “joyfully” and “sing loud.” Listen for word painting on phrases such as “blow the trumpet.”
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“Sing Joyfully”
Composed: 1590
Sacred text, from Book of Psalms
For six voices
Choral Music (more than one singer to a part)
A cappella (sung without instrumental accompaniment)
Anthem was English equivalent of the motet
Large choirs and cathedrals challenged ability of text to be heard
Originally performed by all-male choir, a sound still common in English churches
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Texture: Polyphony in Six Voices
Imitative counterpoint: one voice introduces a new theme and is imitated by other voices in succession
Imitation important since the Renaissance
Challenging to hear the text
Registral separation and text repetition help clarify the text
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Connect Your Playlist: Polyphonic Texture
Find a piece of music that contains at least one passage with polyphonic texture.
The Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations” (1964)
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Sectional Form
Form of music follows form of words
Each line of text receives a melodic idea, ending with a cadence
Elided cadence: new idea introduced as old one ends
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Word-Music Relationships: The Music Paints the Words
“Sing joyfully” set to lively musical motive
“Blow the trumpet” imitates trumpet fanfare
“For this is a statue of Israel” set in a fitting declamatory style
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Profile: William Byrd (1542-1623)
A Catholic working for the Protestant queen, Elizabeth I
Often harassed as a “papist”
His talent guarded against persecution
Briefly monopolized English music printing
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Expand Your Playlist: Byrd
Mass for Four Voices
O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth
Sadness and Anxiety (Tristitia et anxietas)
“This Sweet and Merry Month of May”
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Performance: The Sound of the All-Male Choir
With few exceptions, women were not permitted to sing in church choirs until 18th century
It was feared that women might cause distraction
Churches used their male pupils to sing the soprano line
Ideal sound of all-male choir (still sought after today)
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Expand Your Playlist: Music of the Reformation
Catholics and Protestants recognized the power of music to sway hearts and minds of the faithful.
English:
Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585)
German:
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
John Walter (1496-1570)
French:
Louis Bourgeois (ca. 1510-15-1559)
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Chapter 10
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Pope Marcellus Mass, “Gloria”
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Chapter 10 Learning Objectives (1/2)
10.1 Discuss the sixteenth-century debate over sacred music within the Catholic Church and how Palestrina provided a model for polyphonic music of the Counter-Reformation.
10.2 Explain the ritual of the Catholic Mass and how music is used within it.
10.3 Recognize how Palestrina creates different textures in Pope Marcellus Mass by varying the number of voices from phrase to phrase.
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Chapter 10 Learning Objectives (2/2)
10.4 Listen for the steady, even flow of the rhythm and how Palestrina used elided cadences to keep the music moving forward.
10.5 Recognize passages where Palestrina has strategically introduced dissonance.
10.6 Discuss highlights of Palestrina’s life.
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Listen to This First, Pope Marcellus Mass, “Gloria”
Timbre Listen for the sound of unaccompanied voices.
Texture Try to hear the six different voices, high to low. Listen for the contrast between moments when only some voices are singing and those when all six voices are singing.
Rhythm Listen for the steady, even flow of the music and the occasional cadences that punctuate this flow at various points.
Harmony Listen for the contrast between consonance—a “sweet” sound—and the occasional dissonance—a ”harsh” sound.
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Pope Marcellus Mass
Composed: 1555
“Gloria” conveys sung text with clarity and richness of six-voice texture
Legend: Council of Trent was convinced after listening to this Mass that polyphony, in addition to plainchant, could be effective in projecting a text, along with having beautiful melodies and harmonies.
Most famous Palestrina Mass
“Palestrina Style”
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Historical Context: The Mass
Mass is ritual re-enactment of Christ’s Last Supper with the Disciples
Consists of a combination of texts that never change (Ordinary) and texts that are connected to specific seasons, weeks or days in the church calendar (Propers)
Ordinary: Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Until mid-1960s, texts sung in Latin
Composers of Masses: Machaut, Josquin des Prez, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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A capella Timbre
Unaccompanied voices
Choral music sung a capella (similar to William Byrd’s “Sing Joyfully”)
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Varied Polyphonic Textures
Four vocal lines (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) + extra tenor and bass line
Rarely uses all six voices at any given moment
Texture examples:
1. ”Deus Pater omnipotens” (3 voices)
2. “Domine Fili, unigenite…” (4 voices)
3. “Domine Fili” repeat (6 voices)
4. “unignite” (5 to 4 voices)
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Flowing Rhythm
Palestrina provides variety with passages of faster rhythmic motion
Never becomes monotonous
Each phrase of text receives its own particular melodic idea and slightly different rhythmic pattern
Cadences keep the music moving forward
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Connect Your Playlist: Dissonance and Consonance
Example: Imogen Heap, “Hide and Seek” (2005)
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Consonant and Dissonant Harmonies
Palestrina strategically uses dissonance (harsh sound created when two or more notes clash and so not seem to belong together)
His music is largely consonant
Example: Listen at 0:35 for the word “Adoramus”
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Profile: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 or 1526-1594)
Name from the town Palestrina, near Rome
Musician in churches and around Rome
Prolific composer with 104 settings of Mass, more than 270 motets, and both sacred and secular madrigals
His music continued to be performed long after his death
Later composers were influenced by Palestrina’s style
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Expand Your Playlist: Palestrina
Missa brevis / Mass
Tu es Petrus / Motet
Stabat mater / Motet
Vestiva I colli / Secular Madrigal
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Expand Your Playlist: Music of the Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation
Council of Trent (1545-1563) to close of Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Examples of composers who maintained allegiance to Rome and continued to set texts in Latin:
Tomás Luis de Victoria (ca. 1549-1611)
Cristonál de Morales (ca. 1500-1553)
Orlande de Lassus (1530 or 1532-1594)
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
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Chapter 11
Rhyming Singers of the Bahamas
“My Lord Help Me to Pray”
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Chapter 11 Learning Objectives (1/2)
11.1 Recognize polyphonic singing as a global phenomenon.
11.2 Listen for call-and-response in the Rhyming Singers of the Bahamas’s performance of “My Lord Help Me to Pray.”
11.3 Listen for and describe the three parts of rhyme, treble, and bass in “My Lord Help Me to Pray”
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Chapter 11 Learning Objectives (2/2)
11.4 Listen for the contrasts among the different sections of “My Lord Help Me to Pray.”
11.5 Discuss Bob Marley and the beginning of reggae.
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Listen to This First, “My Lord Help Me to Pray”
Texture Listen for the contrasting register and timbre of the three voices.
Melody Listen for the distinctive melodic contour of each voice.
Word-Music Relationships Notice how the singers change or add words within the same basic textual framework.
Form Listen for the alternation between the call (lead vocalist) and response (chorus).
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“My Lord Help Me to Pray”
Recorded: 1965
Rhyme song developed in nineteenth century
For three vocalists
Each melodic line has its own words
Based on gospel texts
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Texture: Monophony versus Polyphony
Call-and-response alternation between monophony (lead singer) and polyphony (all three voices)
Syncretism: combines different forms of beliefs and practices
Mixes Christian spirituals and Bahamian religious beliefs
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Connect Your Playlist: Call-and-Response
Find a piece that contains a lead vocalist who states the melody (“call”) and a vocal group that responds to him or her (“response”).
Example: Whiskey Shivers, “Graves” (2014)
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Intoning the Melody (1/2)
Bahamians refer to singing as “intoning”
Bahamians refer to their songs as “rhymes”
Each line (call-and-response) has its own intonation model:
Rhyme line: Varied and often improvised; always descending in motion; each phrase ends on its lowest tone.
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Intoning the Melody (2/2)
Treble line: Two halves, a (ascends and pauses on the highest tone of the phrase) and b (descends and resolved on the lowest tone of the phrase).
Bass line: Varied slightly; two essential tones that provide the basic harmonic support; sometimes occurs under the rhyme line as additional support.
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Historical Context: Bob Marley and the Birth of Reggae
Caribbean music is rich and varied
Local styles influenced by American rock and roll heard on radios
Reggae associated with the Rastafarian religion
Emphasis on black liberation, culture, and artistic expression
Strong appeal in Jamaica
Bob Marley (1945-1981): reggae performer, composer, and political activist
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Word-Music Relationships
Uses repeated couplets (pairs of metered lines)
The response is always “My Lord, help me to pray”
Later on, the parts become intricate and complex
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Expand Your Playlist: Music of the Caribbean
Music of the Caribbean
Caribbean Party
Jamaica
Bongo, Backra & Coolie
Reggae
Bob Marley / Babylon by Bus
Bahamas
Joseph Spence
Calypso
Lord Invader
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Chapter 12
Tielman Susato Moorish Dance
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Chapter 12 Learning Objectives (1/2)
12.1 Explain the function of dance in Renaissance society
12.2 Describe the different timbres in Tielman Susato’s Moorish Dance.
12.3 Explain the relationship between meter and dancing.
12.4 Identify the binary form of Susato’s Moorish Dance.
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Chapter 12 Learning Objectives (2/2)
12.5 Discuss Susato’s role as a publisher
12.6 Describe why music publishing was difficult
12.7 Identify other examples of instrumental music from the Renaissance.
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Listen to This First, Moorish Dance
Timbre Listen for instruments from each of the three main families of instruments: winds, strings, and percussion.
Rhythm Listen for the underlying metrical regularity of the music, in duple meter.
Form Listen for the repetition and alternation of the dance’s two sections: the first is characterized by a higher, brighter sound, while the second is lower and somewhat darker.
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Moorish Dance
Composed: ca. 1550
Dance was vital element of social life
Composers supplied much dance music
Various dance genres existed
Each had distinctive tempo, meter, rhythm, and dance step
Susato’s Moorish Dance was one of the most popular dance tunes of its day
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A Rich and Varied Timbre
Performance by very large ensemble
Winds: recorders, shawms, curtal, sackbuts, cornettos
Strings: violins, viols, guitars
Percussion: tabors, bells, tambourine, cymbals
Highest and loudest instruments predominate
Percussion provide steady beat for dancers
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Dancing to Rhythmic Units
Must be rhythmically clear and consistent
Smaller rhythmic units correspond to steps
Each “step” consists of eight beats
Even today, dance music uses repeated musical units played to a steady beat
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Binary Form
Divides into two large units (A and B)
Binary form—two repeated halves
Notated as ||: A :||: B :|| or AABB
Entire dance often repeated
Often ends on A
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Connect Your Playlist: Brass Instruments
Find a piece that makes prominent use of brass instruments.
Example: Shakira, “Hips Don’t Lie” (2006)
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Profile: Tielman Susato (ca. 1510-1570)
Remembered as composer and publisher
Lived in Antwerp
Worked first as calligrapher
Later established a music printing press
Promoted local composers
His talent guarded against persecution
Briefly monopolized English music printing
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Historical Context: The Business of Music Publishing
Printing and publishing was major business by early sixteenth century
Music publishing developed in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci
Petrucci promoted the music of Josquin des Prez
Tielman Susato promoted dance music and popular songs
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Expand Your Playlist: Moorish Dance
Various versions of Moorish Dance by:
Piffaro
Ensemble Terpsichore
Rupert Gough
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Canadian Brass
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Expand Your Playlist: Instrumental Music of the Renaissance
Many musical Instruments from the Renaissance disappeared or evolved over time and only recently have they been recovered
The following albums help to recreate the Renaissance in sound:
Flautando Köln
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Phantasm
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Part II Summary
Making Connections:
Music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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Comparison of Eras (1/3)
Middle Ages Renaissance
Texture Monophonic and polyphonic Polyphonic, including imitative counterpoint
Melody Flowing, largely conjunct, divided into sections by cadences; melodies based on scales of the medieval modes Flowing, but with greater use of disjunct motion; divided into sections by cadences; melodies based on scales of the medieval modes
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Comparison of Eras (2/3)
Middle Ages Renaissance
Rhythm Free (plainchant) and metrically structured Relatively smooth and flowing rhythms within a metrically structured framework
Timbre No sharp distinction between instrumental and vocal music No sharp distinction between instrumental and vocal music; a growing number and variety of instruments
Harmony By-product of harmony By-product of harmony
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Comparison of Eras (3/3)
Middle Ages Renaissance
Form Based on repetition, variety, and contrast Based on repetition, variety, and contrast; primarily sectional; binary form for dance music
Word-Music Relationships Syllabic settings to project texts clearly; melismatic settings to emphasize key words Limited use of word painting
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In Review: Renaissance Style (1/2)
Polyphonic texture Although monophonic plainchant continued to be used in sacred services, new music is almost entirely polyphonic. Imitative counterpoint becomes increasingly important (Byrd). Four-voice texture is the norm at the beginning of the Renaissance (Josquin); six voice texture is the norm by the end (Byrd).
Melody Greater use of disjunct motion; melodies still based on medieval modes
Rhythm Metrical structure provides a framework for rhythms that are usually fluid (Josquin, Weelkes, Byrd), though in the case of dance music these rhythms are more repetitive (Susato)
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In Review: Renaissance Style (2/2)
Word painting Setting specific words to music that imitates the meaning of those words
Binary form The most common form for dance movement, consisting of two sections, each repeated in performance