MUSC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carlo Gesualdo, Hear Music, Religious Music
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*important dates = october 3rd art music concert review due. Okay- the professor added some notes on to the renaissance era notes from tuesday at the beginning of class. Identified in being secular and having many voices, not a lot of instrumentation if at all. Guided listening example 1 = as vesta was from latmos hill descending : composer: thomas weelks, style: english renaissance, genre: madrigal. Listen for: timbre (groups of male and female singers), word painting, texture changes, ***political topic being talked about is the disagreement for the throne of england between protestant. Queen elizabeth the 1st (representing in the song by vesta) and catholic queen anne of denmark (represented in the song by oriana). When the lyrics say that vesta is descending the music is also descending. The composer brilliantly holds out the syllables ahhhhhhh naaaaaa in oriana because he secretly wants queen anna to be queen of englnd.
