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- 1. MUSIC OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD Prepared by: CAROL P. TAPIC, LPT
- 2. GREGORIAN CHANT GREGORIAN CHANT ✓ Monophonic ✓ Free meter ✓ Modal ✓ Usually based in Latin Liturgy ✓ Use of Neume notation
- 3. TROUBADOR MUSIC • CHARACTERISTICS Monophonic Sometimes with Improvised accompaniment Chivalry and courtly love Originatedin France French Language
- 4. MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD 1400-1600 • Rebirth, revival, rediscovery, looking back to the golden age of Greece and Rome • Music became popular for entertainment and activity for amateurs and the educated. • Sacred music started to decline but it was still of great importance • Secular music became more prominent • “Golden Age” of A Capella choral music
- 5. Characteristics of Rennaisance • Mostly polyphonic • Imitation among the voices is common • Use of word painting in texts and music • Melodic lines move in a flowing manner • Melodies are easier to perform because these move along a scale with a few large leaps
- 6. Vocal Music of the Renaissance period • MASS • A form of sacred musical composition that sets texts of the Eucharistic liturgy into music
- 7. Characteristics of the Mass • Polyphonic • May be sung a capella or with Orchestral Accompaniment • Text may be syllabic (One note set to each syllable), neumatic (a few notes to set one syllable), or melismatic (many notes to one syllable)
- 8. Five Main Sections of Mass • Kyrie- “LORD HAVE MERCY”
- 9. Five Main Sections of Mass • Gloria “Glory to God in the Highest”
- 10. Five Main Sections of Mass • Credo “Apostle’s Creed” or “Nicean Creed”
- 11. Five Main Sections of Mass • “Sanctus and Benedictus”- “Holy, Holy,” and “Blessed is He”
- 12. Five Main Sections of Mass • Agnus Dei “Lamb of God”
- 13. Vocal Music of the Renaissance period • MADRIGAL • A Secular vocal polyphonic music composition which originated from Italy. • Written and expressed in a poetic text and sung during courtly social gatherings • Most important secular form during the Renaissance period • CHARACTERISTICS • Polyphonic • Sung in a capella • Through-composed • 3-6 voices
- 14. FAMOUS COMPOSERS DURING THE TIME • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Rome, 1525, Feb. 2, 1594 -Greatest master o f roman Catholic Church-sacred music -He has keen interest in satisfying the desires of church -organist and choir master • Thomas Morley, 1557-1602 -Singer in the local cathedral -from boyhood, he became master of choristers (1583) -he was believed to be a graduate in Bachelor of Music with Mr. William Byrd, an Elizabethan composer.