The document discusses the golden age of polyphony in Renaissance vocal music. It focuses on sacred vocal music genres like the Catholic mass and motet as well as the Protestant chorale and anthem. Key composers discussed include Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Michael Praetorius. Secular vocal music genres covered include the Spanish villancico, English madrigal, German lied, and Italian villanella. Composers highlighted are Thomas Morley and Juan del Encina.

1. RENAISSANCE VOCAL MUSIC
The Golden Age of Polyphony

2. VOCAL MUSIC.
MAIN GENRES (1)
SACRED VOCAL MUSIC
Catholicism
MASS MOTET
Protestantism
CHORALE
Germany
ANTHEM
England

3. Sacred music: Mass and Motet

4. G. P. da PALESTRINA (c. 1525-1594)
(Cf. Wikipedia)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
was an Italian Renaissance
composer of sacred music. He
wrote masses, motets and
madrigals. He is considered as the
best-known 16th-century
representative of the Roman School
of musical composition.He had a
lasting influence on the
development of church music,
And his work has often been seen
as the culmination of Renaissance
polyphony.

5. Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA:
fragmento del “Kyrie” de la Misa del Papa Marcello (1)

6. Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA:
fragmento del “Kyrie” de la Misa del Papa Marcello (2)

7. T. L. de VICTORIA (c. 1548 - 1611)
(Cf. Wikipedia)
Tomás Luis de Victoria was the
most famous composer, organist
and singer in 16th-century Spain,
and was one of the most important
composers of the Counter
Reformation, along with Palestrina
and Lasso. He is considered as one
of the best relevant composers of
this time, with an innovative style
that announced the Baroque style.
When he was 19 years old he
travelled to Rome and he
became Palestrina´s student.

8. Tomás Luis de VICTORIA:
fragmento del motete Magi Viderunt Stellam (1)

9. Michael PRAETORIUS (1571-1621):
Michael Praetorius was a German
Composer, kapellmeister and
organist. He was one of the most
versatile composers of his time and
he influenced the development of
musical forms based in protestant
hymns. He was born in Creuzburg
(Thuringia) in a strict lutheran
family, a condition that determined
his musical career. His father was a
student with Martin Luther. He
worked for three years in the Saxon
court in Dresde, where he was
influenced by Italian composers.

10. Michael PRAETORIUS:
Chorale “Es ist ein Ros ´ entsprungen” (excerpt)

11. VOCAL MUSIC:
MAIN GENRES (2)
SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC
SPAIN
VILLANCICO
ROMANCE
MADRIGAL
ENGLAND
MADRIGAL
GERMANY
LIED
ITALY
VILLANELLA
FROTTOLA
BALLETTO
FRANCE
CHANSON

12. Secular Music: Madrigal and Villancico

13. Thomas MORLEY (1557 ó 1558-1602)
(Cf. Wikipedia)
Thomas Morley was an English
composer, theorist, singer and
organist of the Renaissance.
He was one of the foremost
members of the English
Madrigal School. He became
organist at St. Paul´s Cathedral.
He was the most famous
composer of secular music
In Elizabethan England.

14. Thomas MORLEY: Sing we and chant it (1)

15. Thomas MORLEY: Sing we and chant it (2)

16. Juan del ENCINA (1469-1529)
Juan del Encina was was a Spanish
composer, poet and playwright.
He joined Salamanca Cathedral as a
boy chorister and later on he studied
Law in Salamanca University.
In 1496 he published his Cancionero,
a collection of dramatic and lyrical
poems. It appears also in
Cancionero musical de Palacio (15th
century), a collection of short choral
pieces by many Spanish composers
of that time.

17. Juan del ENCINA: Hoy comamos y bebamos