ars subtillior
late 14th cen extension of the ars nova, more subtle, intended for professional, sophisticated audience
trecento
Italians 14th century music and art
madrigal
14th century Italian poetic form and musical setting
How is Italian notation different from French notation in the ars nova?
The Italian breve can be broken into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12 groups
Madrigal
Fourteenth-century Italian poetic form and its musical setting, having two or three stanzas followed by a ritornello.
ritornello
closing section of a madrigal in a different meter
caccia
Fourteenth-century Italian form featuring two voices in canon over a free untexted tenor
ballata
14th century Italian song with the form AbbaA
Machaut’s Douce Dame
monophonic, refrain, courtly unattainable love, virelai, trouvere-like, duple meter, ars nova, syncopated rhythm, mode based on G
Machaut’s Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure
rondeau, (contratenor, tenor, cantus), rondeau, cantus-tenir duet, successive composition, stratified texture, rhythmic angularity & syncopation, courtly love, based on C, DOUBLE LEADING TONES
Phillipus de Caserta’s ballade en remirant
- stable tenor voice, crazy other voices
- red notes mean reduce time by 1/3
- backwards C = temporary duple meter
- added dots = shifts rhythm forward and add rest
- trying to confuse singers
The Squarcialupi Codex
anthology of good Italian music, copied at the Monastery of St Mary
Jacopo da Bologna’s madrigal non al suo amante
- top line is smooth and virtuosic, vocal ornamentation, no leaps
- aaB
- text is written by Petrarch
- for 2 voices
Francesco Landini’s Cosi Pensoso
- Canon
- pursuit of love/hunting song
- top voice in triple meter, then contravener joins in
Landini Cadence
a decorated sixth-to-octave cadence in which the upper voice moves down a step, then rises a third as the tenor descends by step
