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Lute

• a keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking brass or iron strings with small metal blades called tangents and remaining in contact with the string until the player releases the key.

• a six-string bowed instrument the was the predecessor of the violin that contained ridges in the neck to indicate where the player should stop the string. Produced a soft tone for accompany singing

• a 16th century pear-shaped plucked instrument to perform difficult, virtuosic compositions or simple pieces for home entertainment.

• a keyboard instrument that existed during the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries that was used as both a solo and accompaniment instrument.

Josquin de Prez

• Written for both sacred and secular purposes.

• Born in the French Netherlands (Franco-Flemish), across the northern border of modern-day France.

• Madonna of the Rocks

• Assimilated Josquin’s compositional style to create a personal, conservative style of composition.

Giovanni Luigi de Palestrina

• A composer of the late Renaissance. Assimilated Josquin’s compositional style to create a personal, conservative style of composition.

• Born in the French Netherlands (Franco-Flemish), across the northern border of modern-day France.

• Music was conceived for a religious context

John Dowland

• An Irish lutenist who composed a large number of compositions to be sung or a accompanied by the lute or viol as well as many pieces for solo lute.

• popular in England in the late 16th century that were less emotional, lighter in mood, humorous, and sentimental that the Italian Madrigals.

• began in Italy, was a through-composed secular work that was polyphonic in texture.

Stylized Dance Pieces

• written in the forms and rhythmic patterns of popular dances of the time.

• composed in pairs or sets of three

• Prototypes that serve as the beginning of longer and more complex Dance Suites of the following Baroque period.

Recorder

• produced softer sounds than those of today and were performed for outdoor banquets and festive events.

• an instrumental ensemble that combines three or more instruments of similar timbre in different sizes for different ranges of pitch.

• An end-blown flute held perpendicular to the mouth and built in different sizes for different pitch ranges.

Imitative Polyphony

• music reflects the meaning of the words.

• each voice enters in imitation of the preceding voice until all of the voices have sung one phrase of the text, then each successive phrase in sung in a similar imitation by all of the voices in turn

• each phrase of text is sung to a new melody (no repeating melodies)

• All of the voices move together in the same rhythm which produces a chordal (chord) effect.

Franco-Flemish Musicians

• Aspiring musicians came to Italy to study with these famous Flemish (Netherlandish) musicians.

• The talented artists/musicians from this area were supported by the wealthy patronage of the Burgundian (French) dukes (Dukes of Burgundy/French Royalty). The polyphonic music produced by this school of musicians was often referred to as the Franco-Flemish School or the Netherlandish School.

Clavichord

• a keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking brass or iron strings with small metal blades called tangents and remaining in contact with the string until the player releases the key.

• a 16th century pear-shaped plucked instrument to perform difficult, virtuosic compositions or simple pieces for home entertainment. T

• a six-string bowed instrument the was the predecessor of the violin that contained ridges in the neck to indicate where the player should stop the string.

• a keyboard instrument that existed during the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries that was used as both a solo and accompaniment instrument.

Through-composed

• Written for both sacred and secular purposes.

• music reflects the meaning of the words.

• each voice enters in imitation of the preceding voice until all of the voices have sung one phrase of the text, then each successive phrase in sung in a similar imitation by all of the voices in turn.

• each phrase of text is sung to a new melody (no repeating melodies)