MUS 1751 Lecture : Music Lecture 5
Document Summary
Renaissance means rebirth: originated in italy, a rebirth of interest in the fine arts , poetry, painting, music, architecture, rediscovery of ancient greece and rome, secular music rises in importance and starts to be placed alongside. Humanism, people have the capacity to shape and crate their own world, rather than just being conduits of divine inspiration for being creative and start signing and taking credit for their art work. Time of great artists such as: da vinci, michelangelo. Josquin deprez and the renaissance motet: worked in italy for various dukes in milan and ferrara and for the. Pope in rome: he was temperamental and egotistical. He demanded high pay and only wrote when he wanted to. Composers of the renaissance still wrote masses but they turned their attentions to a new form called the motet. A motet is a composition for choir, in latin on a sacred subject.
