Music 1649A/B Lecture Notes - Missa Papae Marcelli, Gioseffo Zarlino, Medieval Music
6 Feb 2013
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New ideal was light, airy texture rather than the medieval style of polyphonic music. Less reliance on authority that governed medieval music. Composer no longer relies on a borrowed melody as foundation for polyphony. Voices brought in one-by-one, each beginning with the same phrase as the one before. Gioseffo zarlino (1517 1590) lived in the second half of the musical. Renaissance italian music theorist who contributed to counterpoint. Le istitutioni harmoniche (1558) a written work by zarlino discusses tuning and conterpoint. Comes from the word punctus contra punctum - point against point . Controls the way notes are placed one against the other. Two kinds of counterpoint: simple only involved consonant intervals and equal note values placed against each other, and diminished has dissonances as well as consonances that can have every kind of note value. A procedure containing diverse variations of singable sounds measured in time.
