Transcript RENAISSANCE - KingsParkMusic

Good Morning!
Lesson Starter
1. What instrument is accompanying?
2. What type of work is Sting performing?
Early and Renaissance
Music
1450 - 1600
Periods of Musical History
Revision Lesson
Early and Renaissance Music
• In music, the word renaissance is used to
describe music composed or performed
between 1450 – 1600.
Music composed or performed earlier than
1450 may be referred to as early or medieval
music.
What We Will Learn Today
By the end of today’s lesson you will be
confident in identifying the following
Renaissance Period Concepts:
Modal
Anthem
Ballett
Mass
Madrigal
Ayre
Galliard
Motet
Word Painting
Pavan
A little perspective…
• 1492 Columbus “discovers” North
America
• 1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
• Scotch whiskey was invented
• Psychiatric hospitals
• 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci
• 1564-1616 William Shakespeare
• The first flushing toilet c.1591
Famous composers of Early and
Renaissance music
PALESTRINA
MONTEVERDI
BYRD
Modes
• Early and renaissance music was composed using a
system of modes.
• Music in the Renaissance period sound neither
Major nor Minor.
• No two Scales have the same sequence of tones and
semitones.
• This means that the music from this period is modal.
It is easy to identify which mode a melody is written
in, all you have to do is look at the note which the
melody begins and ends on, and the range of the
melody.
Sacred and Secular
• Some of the greatest pieces of music from
the renaissance period were sacred. This
means they were composed for the church
and worship.
• Although sacred music was very popular,
composers began to experiment with secular
music, this is non religious music, which was
commonly used for entertainment and dancing.
Mass
• The mass is one of the
largest forms of sacred
music from this period.
It is best described as
a sacred piece of choral
music, which uses the
six main sections of the
Roman Catholic liturgy.
Six Sections of the Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Benedictus
Some Key Features
• Here are some ways to help identify a mass
from the Renaissance period…
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A Mass uses Latin text
Polyphonic texture
Sung a capella
Plainchant
Plainchant is an unaccompanied style of singing which has
no regular time signature as it follows the natural rhythm
of the words.
Activity 1
• As you listen to the musical extract, complete
the following Cloze Text question.
• The word _____________ can be heard clearly
at the beginning of the extract and the text is
sung in _____________.The texture of this
piece of music is _____________ . The voices
which can be heard are a ______________
choir. There are _____________ instruments
playing in this extract, therefore the piece is
_____________ also known as ____
__________.
• This type of work is called a/an _____________
Answers
• The word _____________ can be heard clearly
at the beginning of the extract and the text is
sung in _____________.The texture of this
piece of music is _____________ . The voices
which can be heard are a ______________
choir. There are _____________ instruments
playing in this extract, therefore the piece is
_____________ also known as ____
__________.
• This type of work is called a/an _____________
Motet
• A Motet is a sacred choral work from the
Renaissance period.
• It has very similar features to that of a
Mass.
• It does not use religious text that is directly
linked to the liturgy, so it may be used in any
church service.
• Key Features
– Sung A Cappella
– Polyphonic texture
– Written for Chorus
Activity 2
• Listen to the following excerpt and tick 3
boxes to identify what you hear
Minor
Homophonic Texture
Counter Tenor
Polyphonic Texture
Consort
Modal
Answers
• Listen to the following excerpt and tick 3
boxes to identify what you hear
Minor
Homophonic Texture
Counter Tenor
Polyphonic Texture
Consort
Modal
Anthem
• Besides the great many Motets and Masses
composed for the Catholic church services,
some composers wrote Anthems to be sung
during Protestant services.
– Sung in English NOT Latin
– Performed by a full choir
– Unaccompanied
However on some occasions the anthem may have been
performed with soloists and accompanied by a consort of
viols.
Activity 3
• This piece of music uses strict imitation;
this is an example of ________________.
Sing joyfully unto God our strength.
Sing loud, sing loud unto the God of Jacob.
Take the song and bring forth the timbrel,
The pleasant harp and the viol.
Blow the trumpet in the new moon!
Even in the time appointed and at our feast day.
For this is a statute for Israel,
and a law of the God of Jacob.
Answer
• This piece of music uses strict imitation;
this is an example of ________________.
Madrigal
• The Madrigal is a secular piece of music
which became popular when a collection
of Italian madrigals with English words
were published in England in 1588.
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Through-composed
Performed A Cappella
Imitation
Polyphonic texture
Word Painting
Thomas Campion, writing
in the preface to his first
book of lute songs 1601,
said of it: "... where the
nature of every word is
precisely expressed in the
note ... such childish
observing of words is
altogether ridiculous."
Word Painting
• There is close association between words ad
music in a mMdrigal, and the composer would
use every opportunity to introduce word
painting.
This is where the music illustrates the words
being sung, for example…
Word painting
• A good example of word painting is illustrated in the
Madrigal As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending
by Thomas Weelkes, shown below:
Activity 4
As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
She spied a maiden Queen the same ascending,
Attended on by all the shepherds’ swain;
To whom Diana’s darlings came running down amain
First two by two, then three by three together
Leaving their Goddess all alone, hasted thither;
And mingling with the shepherds of her train,
With mirthful tunes her presence did entertain.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana:
Long live fair Oriana!
Answers
As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
She spied a maiden Queen the same ascending,
Attended on by all the shepherds’ swain;
To whom Diana’s darlings came running down amain
First two by two, then three by three together
Leaving their Goddess all alone, hasted thither;
And mingling with the shepherds of her train,
With mirthful tunes her presence did entertain.
Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana:
Long live fair Oriana!
Ballett
• The ballett was developed from the madrigal,
originally it was danced as well as sung, and
has a distinctive dance rhythm.
– Strophic (opposite of the madrigal)
– “Fa la la” refrain
– Homophonic
Activity 5
• In this excerpt there is an instrument
playing an obbligato part. What
instrument do you hear?
_________________________
Answers
• In this excerpt there is an instrument
playing an obbligato part. What
instrument do you hear?
_________________________
Ayre
• Another type of vocal music which developed
from the madrigal was the ayre. An ayre is in
strophic form and could be performed in a
variety of ways:
– By solo voice with a lute accompaniment
– Voices with a consort of viols
– Voices alone
Ayre
An example of ayre sheet music.
The music was printed in three directions so
that all performers, seated around a table, may
share the same copy of the music.
Activity 6
Listen to the following excerpt and tick 1 box
in Column A and 1 box in Column B to
identify what you hear.
Column A
Alto
Counter Tenor
Tenor
Column B
Lute
Viol
Sackbut
Answers
Listen to the following excerpt and tick 1 box
in Column A and 1 box in Column B to
identify what you hear.
Column A
Alto
Counter Tenor
Tenor
Column B
Lute
Viol
Sackbut
Dance Music
Pavan
• Slow
• Stately
• 2 beats in the bar
Galliard
• Quick
• Lively
• 3 beats in the bar
Galliard
Activity 7
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