MUSIC 308A- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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Single text set in homorhythmic, homophonic fashion: music set to text, interpreting text. Countenance anglaise: dominant in france, predominance of 3rds and 6ths. Appropriating secular tunes for masses and treated in way recognizable to audience: dufay, missa l"homme arme. Josquin de prez paraphrases original chant melody and uses it as point of imitation: alternation of homophonic and imitative texts, printing press made him famous, circulated widely. Pavane, tilman suzata / spanish guitar di huela / mass: all have de prez"s milles regretz clearly appropriated. Motet in latin: nonliturgical text, through composed, vocal, polyphonic. Italian opera in two words: cruel love: abrupt shifts in texture. Also worked in venice, both high profile positions: wrote 9 collections of madrigals, subject to criticism, g. m. Secular style in france and england lecture 16. 1st generation madrigals, through composed forms in italian instead of french. 2nd generation madrigals, petrarchan movement inspired: pietro bembo, interpretive liberties with text, more contrapuntal, imitative homophony.
