MUSIC 140A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Burgundian School, Guillaume Du Fay, Motet
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Thomas weelkes (1575-1623): those sweet beautiful lilies (1597) Written towards the end of the renaissance. A section: about beautiful woman, consonant harmonies. B section: darker, uses pain and anguish often, not as consonant. Uses a lot of suspensions, esp at cadences. Thick texture, 5 voices - but not all singing at the same time all the time. The english brought in 3rds and 6ths most in music. Would be sung in a home by family members, friends - more modest, personal. Woman"s name was phyllis - popular name at the time. Instrumental dances: basse danse: la gatta, la magdalenga, calata ala spagnola, branle de champagne, passamezzo d"italye, multiple parts, mostly 3-voice, galliarde (1550) Renaissance dances were in alehouses or taverns. We don"t really know what the dance steps were. Guillaume dufay: motet, supremum est mortalibus bonum ( the greatest good of morals 1433) Through-composed piece: not really a pattern, no text repetition.
