Transcript Giovanni perluigi DA pALESTRINA Grace 7.1 Renaissance Music

Giovanni perluigi DA pALESTRINA
Grace 7.1
Renaissance Music
The period on 1450- 1600 is called Renaissance. The word renaissance means
rebirth. The important things in the renaissance are words and music, texture
and rhythm and melody. But the most important is the vocal than instrumental
music. During the period composers wrote music to enlarge the meaning and
emotion of the text. They often used word painting that represent specific poetic
image. For example: the words from heaven might be translated to a melodic
line. Renaissance music is mostly polyphonic influenced by the European.
Renaissance music sounds complete than the medieval music with the bass that
used for the first time. Each melodic line has great rhythmic and it moves more
gentle. Renaissance melodies are easy to sing because the melody usually
moves along a scale
Biography
He was Born in Palestrina, Italy
1525
He died in Rome, Italy 2 Feb-1594
He was a Roman Catholic and his
occupation was an Italian
composer
His wife was Lucrezia Gori and he
had 3 sons. Rodolfo, Angelo and
Iginio
On the 12th of June 1547 he
He studied with Robin Mallapert and
Firmin Lebel.
Biography
He spent most of his career in
Rome Italy at the basilica of Santa
Maria Maggiore, the cappella Giulia
at St. Peter’s and St. John Lateran.
He was influence by the European
that have polyphony style of
music.
Basically
An Italian Renaissance composer of sacred
music. He was best known in 16th century a
representative from the Roman school of
musical composition. His work often seen as
the and the best-known 16th-century
representative of theRoman School of
musical composition.
Career
He was a choirboy at St. Maria
Maggiore Rome.
In 1537 he was demanded by the
bishop to work as the organist and
maestro di cappellaat
Career
In 1551 he was chosen Magister Cappellae
and Magister Puerorum at the Cappella Giulia,
S. Pietro in Vaticano, with a salary of six scudi
per month, and he got a house.
Three years later he published his First Book
of Masses, dedicated to Pope Julius III, and
beginning with the missa "Ecce sacerdos
magnus."
Career
From 1544 to 1551 Palestrina was an organist of the
principal church of his native city (St Agapito) and in
the last year he became a maestro di cappella at the
cappella giula, the papal choir at St.Peter. His first
published compositions, a book of masses made from
the inspiration of Pope Julius III (previously the
Bishop of Palestrina). Then he became the musical
director of the Julian chapel. The book was the first
book of masses by a native composer (an Italian)
because most of sacred composers came from
Netherlands, France, Portugal or Spain.
Career
Palestrina also had a similar positions to his Julian Chapel at other
chapels and churches in Rome during the next decade from 1555 to
1560 (at st john in Lateran) and from 1561-1566 at st Maria Maggiore.
In 1571 he returned to the Julian Chapel, and worked at St Peter's for
the rest of his life. 1570 was a hard year for him because he lost his
brother, two of his sons and his wife because of the plague. He seems
to have considered becoming a priest at this time, but instead of it he
married again to a wealthy widow. This gave him a financial
independence and at that time he was able to compose songs and
other creative music sacred works before he died.
Career
Palestrina left hundreds of compositions, including 104 masses, 68
offertories, more than 300 motets, at least 72 hymns, 35
magnificats, 11 litanies, 4 or 5 sets of lamentations and many
more. But he probably didn’t wrote purely instrumental
music. There are two work of Palestrina's that are edited : one
edited by Haberl and published in 33 volumes in 1862-1894, the
other one was edited by R. Casimiri and published in 34 volumes.
His Missa sine nomine seems to be interesting to J.S. Bach, who
studied and performed it while he was writing his own
masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor. His compositions are very
beautifully harmonized, clear and well balanced. The works
counted as his masterpieces is the Missa Papae Marcelli that
persuade the council of Trent in sacred music. He wrote his works
from 1560s until the end of his life.
Characteristic of his
Music
Palestrina’s music characters has
maintained a remarkably high standard in
both sacred and secular works. He have
many different styles and the number of
voices sused ranges from 4-8.He uses
melodies in the voice part as the tenor.
Characteristic of his
Music
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The "Palestrina Style" was the smooth style of 16th century polyphony. Received
from Johann Joseph Fux from a thoughtful study of his works. – They style
usually called "Renaissance polyphony" and it had been thought in college
counterpoint classes.
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Palestrina made his music by following these strict guidelines:
- The flow of music is dynamic, not rigid or static.
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- Melody should contain few leaps between notes.
- If a leap occurs, it must be small and immediately countered by opposite
stepwise motion.
- Dissonances (inharmonious) are either passing note or off the beat. If it is on
the beat, it is immediately resolved.
Best work
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- Missa Ad coenam Agn
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-Missa Aeterna Christi munera
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-Missa brevis
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-Missa O Regem Coeli
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Nicolas Grenon (c. 1375–1456)
List of Renaissance
Composers
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John Dunstaple (c. 1390–1453), native to England
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Pierre Fontaine (c. 1380–c. 1450)
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Guillaume Legrant (fl. 1405–1449), also known as Lemarcherier
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Jacobus Vide (fl. 1405?–1433)
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Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474), also Du Fay
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Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460), or Gilles de Bins
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Johannes Brassart (c. 1400/1405–1455)
List of Renaissance
Composers
Jean Cousin (b. before 1425, d. after 1475)
Arnold de Lantins (fl. 1423–1432)
Hugo de Lantins (fl. c. 1420–1430)
Gilles Joye (c. 1424/1425–1483)
Guillaume Le Rouge (fl. 1450–1465)
Antoine Busnois (c. 1430–1492)
Robert Morton (c. 1430–1479)
Adrien Basin (fl. 1457–1476; died after 1498)
Hayne van Ghizeghem (c. 1445–after 1476)
Forest, y John Forest
Leonel Power (c. 1370/1385–1445)
J. Cooke (c. 1385–1442?),
Bibliography
http://www.nndb.com/people/580/000093301/
http://www.hoasm.org/IVF/Palestrina.html
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Palestrina
http://library.thinkquest.org/27927/Renaissance_Characteristics.htm
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20315169/Music-of-the-Renaissance
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