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Renaissance Period
1450-1600
Polital Events
Fall of Constantinople (1453)
Capture of the Byzantine – 1,110 years old, marked as the end of
the Middle ages and the fuel to the Renaissance.
Luther’s 95 Theses (1517)
Doc. Martin Luther: Lecture that was nailed to the door of the
Church. The first split from the catholic church (Lutheran)
Council of Trent (1545- 1563)
Met in response to Luther’s 95 Theses. Brought about reform
and explanation of the catholic doctrine.
Reign of Elizabeth I (1545 – 1603)
Ruled for 44 years with prosperity and has Elizabethan Era
named after her.
Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
http://www.elizabethi.org/contents/armada/
Musical Events
Beginning of Music Printing (1500)
Development of Italian Madrigal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPZTT0ZYhS4
30 seconds in
Rebirth
Learning became important symbol for the middle and
upper classes
Movable type in the printing press. Allowed for music
to be printed and duplicated to send all over Europe
Every educated person was trained in music.
Instruments became more popular
Josquin des Prez
 Was Popular in his lifetime.
 Worked with Counterpoint.

1 melody against another melody
 18 settings of the Roman
Catholic mass – 6 settings of
different mass – 112 motets
(vocal pieces 3 & 4 voices) 70
chansons (3 voices, 1 or 2
lower voices are instruments
 https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=LUAgAF4Khmg
 “Father of Musicians”
 Josquin was a great composer
who demanded higher salary
and composed only when he
wanted to not when he was
asked
MOTETS & CHANSONS
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=O2MuqpcfuM4
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=0yd5EE0hAB8
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=uv-LgLq_wmY
SACRED MUSIC
 MOTET
 Vocal piece for 3 or 4 voices most popular but
occasionally 5 or 6 voices
 Sacred during the Renaissance period
 More than one text and always LATIN
SACRED MUSIC
MASS
Most important religious service in Roman Catholic
Church
Proper – number of different sections and changed daily
Ordinary – 1. Kyrie (prayer for mercy) 2. Gloria (joyful
hymn) 3. Credo (confession of faith) 4. Sanctus (praise
the holiness of God) 5. Agnus Dei (praises the lamb of
God who takes away sin from the world)
Requiem – sung at funerals and memorial services.
SECULAR MUSIC
Became an important form of expression for the
educated and advanced composers.
Chansons – dance music generally with three voices
and one or two of the lower voices being instruments
Instruments became important, in particular
instrumental dance songs were extremely popular.
Recorders, string = indoor instruments
Shawm (medieval oboe) sackbutt (medieval trombone
Madrigal a motet of secular music. 4 – 6 voices
Claudio Monteverdi
1567-1643
Italy
Prodigy composer
Viola player
L’Orfeo – first
opera
Single father 3
Claudio Monteverdi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
1525-1594
Masses and motets
Organist and choirmaster
Taught music
Council of trent highered to
revise the official chant
book, completed by others
because of death
3 sons 2 died remarried to a
wealthy widow.
Popularity grew after his
death
Giovanni Gabrieli
1557-1612
Briged the Renaissance
and Baroque Period
Instrumental works
Organist