Music 150

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Music 150

• Renaissance Music

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General Background

• Great age of exploration and discovery
  Humanism
• Music Printing
• Protestant Reformation

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Uses of Renaissance Music

• Church Music
• Other Religious Songs
• Secular Songs (love, politics)
• Instrumental Dances

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Renaissance Music Traits

• Polyphonic, imitative
• Word-Painting
• Sacred Motet and Mass
• Secular Madrigal and Songs

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Renaissance Church Music
JOSQUIN DESPREZ
- Ave Maria virgo serena
(motet) Giovanni da PALESTRINA- Pope Marcellus
Mass
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Renaissance Secular Music
Thomas WEELKES- As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill
Descending (English madrigal)
Carlo GESUALDO -
Moro lasso (Italian
Madrigal)
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Renaissance Instrumental Music
CONSORT MUSIC Viol, Recorder, Lute