STUDY GUIDE for TEST # 2

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MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE REVIEW
Ars Nova
Cantus Firma
Organum
Rebec
Mass Ordinary
Jongleurs
Estampie
Trouvere
Troubadour

Occupations of Guilllaume de Machaut
Mass of Notre Dame (# of voices/dates/ location/ordinary of the mass)
Ars Nova (composers/dates/innovations/what differentiated from earlier
style)
Outstanding composer of Ars Nova --14thc Italian/ School of Notre Dame
Creation of early polyphonic music as differentiating Western Music from
all other types (dates, how was polyphony first created, names)

RENAISSANCE REVIEW
The Renaissance Ballett (Fa-La)
A simpler type of secular vocal music than the madrigal was the ballett
(or fa-la) a dance like song for several solo voices. In contrast to
much Renaissance music, the ballett was mostly homophonic in texture
with the melody in the highest voice. The same music is repeated for
each stanza of the poem, and the syllables fa-la are used as refrain.
Like the madrigal the Renaissance ballett originated in Italy. It was
cultivated in England around 1595 to the 1620’s.

Terpsichore
Galliard
Passamezzo
Council of Trent
Lute
Renaissance Ballletto
Giovanni Gabrielli
Humanism
Renaissance Mote
A Capella
The Reformation in Music

Dates of Renaissance Madrigal
Comparison of Medieval and Renaissance Music
Significance of St. Marks Cathedral to Polychoral Music (acoustical
properties of the building)
Leading musical center of 16thc Europe
The textures of Renaissance music
Describe with 3 or more facts the Renaissance Mvt. Give Dates
Facts about Josquin Des Prez --where he worked, whom he
influenced/comtemporaries
Musical training of the nobility
Subjects learned by educated people
Function 9societal) of most Renaissance dance music
Function of most Renaissance vocal music