MUS 10A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Josquin Des Prez, Counter-Reformation, Augsburg Interim
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Church people required to sing hymns in their own time and feel both melody and words. Motets only reserved for professional choir at mass. Controversy about purity of lyrics and music itself. Title would have been more simple but it could have been more of an emphasis on songs more so them being sacred. The authors might have used the long title to hide their true religious beliefs. Catholic recumbents were looked down upon and sometimes charged and tortured. Preface of gradualia talked about the intention of the music. Many byrd songs end with have mercy on me . Not much unusual attention paid to hymns. Cirillo francis wanted to purify catholic music and link to sacred text. Palestrina created songs with hints of eroticism. Musical borrowing of polyphonic structure, not individual lives. Lheritier made the last line repeated and different. Palestrina borrowed technique and added eroticism in credo. Credo: three lines, showed core catholic faith and ideas (very short)
