16th century song in Germany
Lied
16th century song in France
Chanson
16th century song in Spain
villancico
16th century song in Italy
frottola and MADRIGAL
16th century song in England
lute song
what was the most important technological advance in the 16th century
the printing press
Why was the printing press an important invention?
- more people could buy it, more demand
- musicians made more money
Characteristics of villancico
- short
- strophic, syllabic and homophonic
- peasant music for rich people
- has refrain
- top voice usually has the melody
Juan del Encina
Spanish playwright who composed villancicos, interested in pastoral themes from greek/roman lit.
Oy comamos y bebamos
- villancico, very lively
- Encina composed
- in a play about mardi gras
characteristics of frottola
- fake peasant song for rich people
- syllabic, strophic, homophonic, melody in upper voice
- root position triads
Characteristics of madrigal
- music enriches the meaning of the words
- any number of lines that are 7 or 11 syllables
- no refrains
Through composition
no repetition or refrain, new music for every line of poetry
what were fifth and sixth voices called in mid 16th cen.
quintus and sextus
bianco e dolce cigno
- jaques arcadelt
- about swans singing while dying or maybe sex
- easy to sing bc its mostly quarter notes
- madrigal
- text painting: #s for happy, b’s for sad
What did Cardinal Bembo say?
He encouraged people to write in the style of Petrarch (which was written in Tuscan)
De le belle Contrade
- Cipriano de Rore
- chromaticism
- about 2 lovers who spend the night together, then have to leave each other and the rising planet venus
- word painting: will change the structure of the poetry that he uses for better interpretation
lo parto
Carlo Gesualdo
- not for amateurs
- for rich people
- about 2 angsty lovers leaving each other
- lots of word painting
villanella
- strophic
- homophonic
- italian
- purposely rustic
Who was Pierre Attaingnant?
first French music printer
Tant que vivray
- love poem
- chanson
- Claudin de Sermisy
- simple melody, there is different text for the same music, so word painting can’t happen
Martin memoir son pourceau
- marot
- they fuck and get dragged away by a pig
- five line stanzas and symmetrical rhyme scheme
- plagal cadence and suspensions
- narrative or programmatic chanson
La nuict froide et sombre
- de lasso
- madrigal like chanson
- minor for night, major for day
- nature poetry
musique mesurée
chansons that give stressed syllables longer notes than unstressed syllables
