MUSIC

- Renaissance music is also known as the "Golden age of a capella choral music"
- Mass - the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross; consists of
some texts to be sung and others to be recited
- The name Mass is derived from the last item, Ite missa est
- Motet - a short polyphonic musical compositions that is typically set in Latin text;
characterized as having cascading passing chords between multiple voices.
- Madrigal - a vocal composition that combines homophonic and polyphonic
lectures; a piece for several voices set to a short poem. usually about love.
- Music was a popular music form of entertainment during the renaissance era
- A vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment is cantata.
- Opera is a drama song with instrumental accompaniment.
- Aria , solo song for voice
- Fugul (fugue) music - is a compositional technique ( in classical music )
- The arrival of Renaissance music and departure from medieval music may be
liked to changes in people's preference from rock to rap music
- Renaissance style placed more importance on the text than on the music in a
Vocal Work
- Renaissance notation are arranged in such a way that melody moved along the
scale with a new enormous leps
- Melodic constructions were based on modes
- During the Renaissance, closely spaced restatement in or more voice parts of the
melody became the primary structural characteristics in music
- Renaissance mass song were used in litergies not only in Catholic Church but also
in Anglican Communion and in the Lutheran Church Lauda Spiritual - was an
important form of vernacular sacred music
- in 1600's, madrigal spiritual, an instrument form, was used as accompaniment in
occasions
- Giovanni da Palestrina is one of the famous motet composersof Renaissance Era
- Guillaume de Machaut's the Messe de Nostre Dame consists of five movements.
- The word Baroque comes from the Portuguese word barroco meaning "misshapen
pearl".
- Suite - is an important Baroque instrumental form of the solo harp, clavichord or
orchestral instruments