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Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music ; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music , preceding the ...
- c. 1730-1820
- c. 1400-1600
- c. 500-1400
Dec 7, 2016 · Thus this review will cast an eye and ear over five recordings of 13th-century music, two of which link directly, through personnel, to this performing tradition of the past few decades, while the other three come from a newer generation of performers with a new agenda.
- Introduction
- Etymology
- Medieval Motets
- Renaissance Motets
- Motets
- Council of Trent
- Biography
- Music and Reputation
- Life
- Madrigals
Consensus among music historians notable dissent has been to start the musical Renaissance era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period. The musical Renaissance then starts about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as understood in other disciplines. As i...
In the early 20th century, it was generally believed the name came from the Latin movere (“to move”), though a derivation from the French mot (“word” or “phrase”) had also been suggested. The medieval Latin for “motet” is motectum, and the Italian mottettowas also used. If the word is from Latin, the name describes the movement of the different voi...
The earliest motets arose in the 13th century from the organumtradition exemplified in the Notre Dame school of Leonin and Perotin. The motet probably arose from the addition of text to the long melismatic passages of organum. The motet took a definite rhythm from the words of the verse and as such appeared as a brief rhythmic interlude in the midd...
The motet was preserved in the transition from medieval to Renaissance music, but the character of the composition was entirely changed. While it grew out of the medieval motet, the Renaissance composers of the motet generally abandoned the use of a repeated figure as a cantus firmus. Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, ...
Josquin’s motet style varied from almost strictly homophonic settings with block chords and syllabic text declamation, to highly ornate contrapuntal fantasias, to the psalm settings that combined these extremes with the addition of rhetorical figures and text-painting that foreshadowed the later development of the madrigal. He wrote many of his mot...
Pope Paul III (1534–1549) is considered to be the first pope of the Counter-Reformation and also initiated the Council of Trent (1545–1563), a commission of cardinals tasked with institutional reform, addressing contentious issues such as corrupt bishops and priests, indulgences, and other financial abuses. The Council upheld the basic structure of...
Palestrina was born in the town of Palestrina, near Rome, then part of the Papal States. Documents suggest that he first visited Rome in 1537, when he is listed as a chorister at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica. He studied with Robin Mallapert and Firmin Lebel. He spent most of his career in the city. Palestrina came of age as a musician under th...
Palestrina left hundreds of compositions, including 105 masses, 68 offertories, at least 140 madrigals, and more than 300 motets. In addition, there are at least 72 hymns, 35 magnificats, 11 litanies, and 4 or 5 sets of lamentations. The Gloria melody from a Palestrina magnificat is widely used today in the resurrection hymn tune Victory(The Strife...
Claudio Monteverdi was born in 1567 in Cremona, Lombardy. His father was Baldassare Monteverdi, a doctor, apothecary, and amateur surgeon. He was the oldest of five children. During his childhood, he was taught by Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, the maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Cremona. The Maestro’s job was to conduct important worship services...
Until the age of forty, Monteverdi worked primarily on madrigals, composing a total of nine books. It took Monteverdi about four years to finish his first book of twenty-one madrigals for five voices. As a whole, the first eight books of madrigals show the enormous development from Renaissance polyphonic music to the monodic style typical of Baroqu...
Aug 4, 2018 · “ ‘Enté’: A Survey and Reassessment of the Term in 13th- and 14th-Century Music and Poetry,” Early Music History 22 (2003), 67 – 101.Google Scholar
Jun 7, 2021 · Motets grew quite popular by the thirteenth century, and they represented the first true polyphony of the Medieval era. The motet would carry on well past the Medieval era. Renaissance composers like Guillaume Dufay and Baroque composers like J.S. Bach would go on to write motets that fit their own respective eras.
Jul 9, 2015 · When were the middle ages? How do we know what the music sounded like? What were the earliest surviving songs? What was its dance music like? Why does medieval music sound so different to today’s? How did medieval musicians harmonise?
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Nov 3, 2014 · Music was a more significant component in late medieval and early modern society than most historians have acknowledged. It provided one of the most versatile means of communication, and like some other forms of art, did not have to rely on words.
