1st Quarter Lesson #1 MAPEH For Today's Learner 9 Music of the Renaissance Period

2. RENAISSANCE
•RINASCIMENTO – REBIRTH
•STARTED IN FLORENCE FROM THE 14TH TO
16TH CENTURY
•GOLDEN AGE OF POLYPHONY.
•IT WAS A PERIOD OF EXPLORATION AND
ADVENTURE

3. •SAW THE VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS AND
MAGELLAN
•PRODUCED THE LIKES OF DA VINCI
•PAINTER, ARCHITECT, SCULPTOR,
ENGINEER, SCIENTIST AND A GREAT
MUSICIAN

4. •CATHOLIC CHURCH MUSICIAN WAS
LESS INFLUENCIAL.
•EDUCATION WAS NO LONGER
DOMINATED BY THE CHURCH
•EDUCATION IS A STATUS SYMBOL FOR
THE ARISTOCRATS AND MIDDLE CLASS.

5. •MUSICAL HORIZONS WERE EXPANDED
•PRINTED MUSIC
•CHURCH CHOIRS
•COMPOSERS
•PERFORMERS

6. •EDUCATED PERSON WAS EXPECTED
THEN TO BE TRAINED IN MUSIC.
•MUSICIANS WORKED IN
•CHURCHES
•COURTS
•TOWNS

7. MUSICAL STYLE
•TEXTURE IS POLYPHONIC
•CHORAL PIECE HAS FOUR, FIVE OR SIX
VOICE PARTS
•IMITATION AMONG THE VOICES IS
COMMON

8. •HOMOPHONIC TEXTURE WITH
SUCCESSION OF CHORDS IS ALSO USED
IN DANCE MUSIC.
•RENAISSANCE MUSIC TEXTURE IS FULLER
•BASS REGISTER IS USED FOR THE 1ST TIME

9. •INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT IS
NOT NEEDED
•GOLDEN AGE OF “A CAPELLA”
•INSTRUMENT WERE COMBINED WITH
VOICES IN CHORAL MUSIC

10. •DUPLICATION OF SOUND TO REINFORCE
THE SOUND.
•PART OF THE MISSING SINGER IS DONE
BY THE INSTRUMENTALIST.
•WRITTEN MUSIC FOR THE
INSTRUMENTS IS RARELY FOUND.

12. •MOTET
•SET TO A
SACRED LATIN
TEXT OTHER
THAN THE
ORDINARY OF
THE MASS
•MASS
•MADE UP OF 5
SECTIONS:
•KYRIE
•GLORIA
•CREDO
•SANCTUS
•AGNUS DEI

13. RENAISSANCE MOTET
•JOSQUIN DES PREZ
•FRANCO FLEMISH MASTER
•SERVED IN THE PAPAL CHURCH AND DUKES’
PRIVATE CHAPELS
•HE WROTE MASSES, MOTETS AND SECULAR
VOCAL PIECES
•AVE MARIA

14. RENAISSANCE MASS
•GIOVANNI DA PALESTRINA
•WRITER OF CHURCH MUSIC
•104 MASSES AND OTHER 405 SACRED
WORKS
•POPE MARCELLUS MASS (WRITTEN FOR
A CAPELLA CHOIR OF SIX VOICE PARTS)

15. GUILLAUME DUFAY
•EARLIEST COMPOSER OF
BURGANDIAN SCHOOL
•ACTIVE AT THE COURT OF PHILIP THE
GOOD AND DUKE OF BERGUNDY.

16. SECULAR MUSIC
•VOCAL WORKS
•SINGERS WERE SUPPORTED BY
INSTRUMENTS
•GROWTH OF SOLO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
•KEYBOARD AND LUTE

17. MADRIGAL
•ARITOCRATIC FORM OF POETRY AND
MUSIC
•POLYPHONIC IN TEXTURE
•EXPRESSIVE IN MOODS
•WRITTEN IN VERNACULAR LANGUAGE

18. •TEXT WAS SHORT POEM OF LYRIC
•LONGER THAN 12 LINES
•LOVE, POLITICAL THEMES, SCENES
AND INCIDENTS OF COUNTRY LIFE

19. MADRIGAL’S MUSICAL
CHARACTERISTICS:
•RICH CHROMATIC HARMONY
•VOCAL VIRTUOSITY
•RICH PORTRAYAL IN MUSIC OF
EMOTIONAL WORDS.

21. THOMAS MORLEY
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI