Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Renaissance
- Reformation = moving away from latin
- Counter Reformation = CC wanted control back
- didn't like polyphony; wanted plainsong
- inspired from Rome
- Secular music = important
- beginning of harmony/polyphonic
- Madrigals = voice, secular, amorous,
Monteverdi + Byrd
- Balletts = madrigal + nonsense
syllables, homophonic
- Canzonetts = little songs, no
nonsense syllables, comical
- Stilo antico = conservative northern
Italian Style
- Antiphon = plainsong tuna sung
by one choir to another
- Motets = piece of music sung in Latin.
Lead to polyphonic music
- Keyboards of the Renaissance.
Clavichord = used in composition
- Harpsichord = used in fuges, plucked, no dynamics
- Virginals = small harpsichord, young ladies
- Claviorgan = chords with harpsichord melody
- Consort of Viols = bowed string instrument,
ensemble, courts, Byrd
- Lute song = singer + lute, lyrics were very
important (love)