2. Our Index
(What will we accomplish?)
What musical period are we in?
-characteristics, instrumentation, etc.
Who Is GG?
What did he do?
When/where did he work?
3. The Renaissance
Renaissance Music:
defined as music written in Europe in the
Renaissance…
Period era: c.1400-1600
Influenced by:
-the rise of humanistic thought
-the Protestant reformation
-printing press helped music publishing rise
4. The Renaissance (cont.)
Chansons, motets, and masses came to be a popular
practice with polyphony
range, rhythm, harmony, form, and notation became
expanded and changed with composers personal
expression.
New text settings would be put to practice, but primarily
secular music was written
Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal
spread throughout Europe.
Courts employed virtuoso performers, both singers and
instrumentalists
Many familiar modern instruments including violin, guitar,
lute, and new keyboard instruments would develop out of
the era, presenting new ways to play new styles of music
5. So, Who is GG?
c. 1554/57, – Aug. 12, 1610/12
One of 5 children
Composer and Organist, studied with
Orlando de Lassus at the court of Duke
Albert V until c. 1579
He represents the culmination of the style
of the Venetian School, at the time of
period shifts
6. 1584, GG is in Venice and becomes
principal organist at Saint Mark’s Basilica
in 1585
That year, he would also take over as
principal composer
Then take on the organist post at Scola
Grande di San Rocco, where he would
also spend his entire career
San Rocco was the most prestigious and
wealthy of all the Venetian confraternities
Died c.1610/12 due to implications from a
kidney stone
7. GG primarily wrote sacred vocal and
instruemental music.
Canzone e Sonate (published in 1615)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSp
sHcpRp8
8. Famous Works
Canzoni per sonare (1608)
-"Canzona per Sonare No. 2" by The
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble;The Cleveland
Brass Ensemble;The Chicago Brass Ensemble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIzd
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