Humanism
Emphasizes the expression of human emotions, individuality, and experience, moving the focus from religious stuff
Benefice
Permanent Church appointment for which property and income are provided in respect of duties
Just Intonation
Musical tuning system where intervals are based on simple whole-number ratios (tonic)
Mean-tone Temperament and Equal Temperament
Mean-tone = Purer-sounding thirds by flattening fifths
Equal = Divided into 12 equal semitones
Partbook
A book that contained notes for only one voice, part of a polyphonic musical composition
Motet
choral music, often religious, sung by multiple voices w/out instruments, using different melodies woven together, Latin
Ave Maria Josquin
English Consonance
3rds and 6ths = good
Early and distinctly English tradition which were considered more dissonant on the European continent during medieval period
Plainsong Mass/Motto Mass/Cantus-Firmus Mass
Plainsong - each movement based on chant to the same text
Motto Mass - movements linked by sharing same opening motive or phrase
Cantus-Firmus Mass - based on same polyphonic work each movement unified by same pre-existing melody, “Tenor” becomes cantus firmus, Mass movements centered on same pitch
Missa Se la face ay pale: III. Gloria - Guillaume Dufay
Italian Madrigal
strong use of text setting and musical impact
most important secular song. style of 16th century
no refrains
poetic subjects
“Laura che’l verde lauro” - Nicola Vicentino
Lute Song
solo voice accompanied by a lute and often a bass viol
Maddalena Casulana
or “Flow My Tears”
Narrative Chanson/Descriptive Chanson/Lyric Chanson
Narrative - Storytelling, humorous and bawdy, fast declamation of text “Martin Benoit son pourceau” - Clément Janequin
descriptive - storytelling, imitative effects
lyric - love, sung first person, homophonic
-tells a story, depicts a scene, and expresses feelings and emotions in French
Musique Measurée
French poetry to music precisely matching duration of notes to the accentuation of syllables
Text Painting
music directly illustrates the meaning of lyrics or story elements
“hill one”
Metrical Psalm
metric, rhymed psalms
replaced pure biblical text
