Renasissance means rebirth or the age of enlightment. At this period, people started to get out of the control of the churches.
- Medical Science, Science, Arts, Music developed a lot in this period.
- Martin Luther who was excommunicated by Catholic church because he believed churches took advantage of people's belives to make money and to control their thoughts. So he formed a new filiation of Cotholicism named Lutheranism.
- Church of England was built. In these church people began to use vernacular.
- Ostinato--(a kind of musical device)continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.
1.O Wilhelme, pastor bone
This song was compose by the greatest English composer of the early 16th century--John Taverner in 1526.
O Wilhelme, pastor bone was intended for an all-male choir. Boys would have sung the two top parts. This piece is mixed with homophony (one main melody with accompaniment) and polyphony(several differert melodies part heard at the same time).Taverner used a syllabic (every syllable is matched with different note) setting of the text until the last phrase (aeternae vitae praemuium) where the end of the piece is emphasised with a melisma (one syllable is matched with several notes). Also, we can find antiphony (a effect that a group of performers being answered by a contrasting group) in this song.The forth kind of texture found in the the piece is imitation, Traverer sets the words Aeternae vitae praemium to a figure beginning with a rising interval and followed by a gentle descent.
Related knowledge about this piece:
2. "Mean" refer to low treble voice.
2. Flow my tears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4
It is written by English composer John Downland in the late Renaissance around 1594. This work began life as a pavan(a slow processional dance in duple time) for solo lute, but later he wrote the lyric made it a piece for voice with lute accompaniment. Melancholy was very popular in Elizabethan England, and Downland's piece became the hit of its day because Flow my tears also reflected a sad mood.
The song has a structure of tripartite with each section repeated once (AA BB CC).And having a texture of homophony with contrapuntal part. This song is in A minor. Part A and Part C end in perfect cadence and both perfect cadences have a tierce de Picardie (Sharpening the third note in minor keys, make them have the same form as major keys at the end of pieces or sections,ending in tonic major) and being decorated with suspensions. While Part B ends in phrygian cadence(a type of imperfect cadence that consists of the progression IVb-V in a minor key).
Related knowledge about this piece:
1. A bass viol -- a low pitched, bowed-string instrument.
2. Suspensions, false relations, phrygian cadences and the tierce de Picardie are characteristic features of late-Renaissance music.
3.The image of melancholy (Pavane) and Ecce quam bonum (Galliard)
Thes two movements were first published in London in1599 and writen by Anthony Holborne who was highly regarded as a writer of instrumental by his contemporaries.
Pavane is a stately dance in slow duple time,popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and performed in elaborated clothing.
Galliard is a lively dance in triple time for two people, including complicated turns and steps.
Although Holborne use dance form for these two movements.But they all contained conterpoint (more than two different melodies), shows that this is music for the ear rather than the feet.
These two pieces were scored for a consort of 5 solo instrument but are non-idomatin(not for specific instruments).These were likely for domestic use(for professionas) not for public performance. And we also can't find any dynamics or performance direction. The more earier the music is, the fewer the performance direction is shown.
Kabi
2. Suspensions, false relations, phrygian cadences and the tierce de Picardie are characteristic features of late-Renaissance music.
3.The image of melancholy (Pavane) and Ecce quam bonum (Galliard)
Thes two movements were first published in London in1599 and writen by Anthony Holborne who was highly regarded as a writer of instrumental by his contemporaries.
Pavane is a stately dance in slow duple time,popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and performed in elaborated clothing.
Galliard is a lively dance in triple time for two people, including complicated turns and steps.
Although Holborne use dance form for these two movements.But they all contained conterpoint (more than two different melodies), shows that this is music for the ear rather than the feet.
These two pieces were scored for a consort of 5 solo instrument but are non-idomatin(not for specific instruments).These were likely for domestic use(for professionas) not for public performance. And we also can't find any dynamics or performance direction. The more earier the music is, the fewer the performance direction is shown.
Kabi
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