1. MUH 3211 - Music History I The Renaissance: Prelude & Chapters 4 and 5
11/17/2018
Part II
The Renaissance: Prelude & Chapters 4 and 5
DAY 17 (13 Oct 17)

2. Josquin de Prez (c. 1450-1521) Born in low countries (France/Belgium?)
Chapel of Rene d’Anjou (Southern France)
Milan/Rome –Cardinal Sforza
Papal Chapel ( )
Duke of Ferrara’s Chapel
Condé-sur-l'Escaut (N. France) - Provost of Church - Burial
The major figure of the High Renaissance

3. Mass Techniques (Josquin, et al.)
Cantus firmus – pre-existing “fixed song” - chant - popular song - other (solfeggio syllables, soggetto cavato)
Canon – parts derived (or follow) exactly from leading line
Imitation (or Parody) – all voices can borrow or emulate the pre-existing sources (closely)
Paraphrase – borrowed material is freely elaborated and embellished

4. Examples
Imitation / Parody Mass - “Fortuna desperata” (Busnois chanson, Anth I/38) - Kyrie, Missa Fortuna desperata (Josquin, Anth. I/39)
Paraphrase Mass - Kyrie, Missa Pange lingua (Josquin, Anth. I/40) [see original hymn: Anth. I/4]
Soggetto cavato (“subject carved out of a name”) - Kyrie, Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae - Subject = Re-Ut-Re-Ut-Re-La-Mi-Re (DCDCDFED) (textbook Ex. 5-3)

5. Secular Vocal Music (to 1520)
Homogeneous texture (equal parts)
Chanson (“song” in France)
Busnois, “Je ne puis vivre ainsy” (Anth I/43)
Lied (German: “song”)
Isaac, “Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen” (Anth I/44)
Frottola (Italy, after 1480s)
Josquin, “El grillo” (w/ lute) (Anth I/46)
A Concert (c. 1485/95) Lorenzo Costa ( ),

6. Printing Press (post 1450s)

7. Music Printing Ottaviano Petrucci (1466-1539)
Learned printing in Venice
1498 –asks for 20 years’ right to print music(!)
No other printed music in Venice before 1520
Harmonice musicies Odhecaton A (1501) - “Hundred Songs of Polyphonic Music” - Triple impression (staves, texts, notes)
Multiple collections of most important music of the era (all genres)

8. Pierre Attaingnant (?-1552)
Printing w/ individual sections of type (slugs)
Dance Collection (1540)

9. Ensemble Print (1590s)

10. Instrumental Music More common in 15th and 16th centuries
Iconography (paintings) & written descriptions
Usually played from memory - dance music
Adapted vocal music - play from parts (double voices)
Improvisation and elaboration beyond score

11. Portative Organ
Portative Organ

12. Harpsichord Emerges late 14th C Plucked strings
Double stringing - soft volume - fast decay
Mechanism
Cavazzoni piece (c. 1525)

13. Lute & Theorbo Ex. Lute Ex. Theorbo MUH 3211 - Music History I
11/17/2018
Lute & Theorbo
Ex. Lute
Ex. Theorbo
DAY 17 (13 Oct 17)

14. Violin vs. Viol
Ex. Renaissance Violin
Ex. Viola da Gamba

15. Wind Instruments
Recorder
Shawm
Sackbut
Cornetto