3. In the 2nd and 3rd generation of the Renaissance, musicians trained in
the North (France, Burgundy) spent all or parts of career in the South (Italy).
4. Jean de Ockeghem (ca. 1420-1497)
composer, singer choirmaster,
teacher
born in Belgium
served King of France for half a
century
most famous for masses
also wrote motets and secular
chansons
Masses
Missa de plus en plus
cantus firmus mass
some cadences like V-I
3rds and 6ths,not @ cadences
4 equal voices
missa cuiusvis toni (mass in any
mode)
1, 3, 5, or 7
Missa prolationum
2 written parts, both w/ 2 different
5. Antoine Busnoys (ca. 1430—1492)
Born in Northern France
served at the Burgundian
Court (today central-eastern
France)
most famous for secular
chansons
also wrote masses and
motets
Chansons
3 or 4 voices, treble-dominated
style, formes fixes (rondeau)
Dufay influence—smooth
arching melodies, syncopation,
pervasive consonance, careful
dissonance treatment, 3rds &
6ths
6. 1420-1450
Dunstable, Binchois, DuFay
1450-1480
Ockeghem, Busnoys
1480-1520
Obrecht, Isaac, Des Prez
Renaissance Musical Development
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Resveilles Vous
DuFay
•ballade, aabC
•6/8
•Landini, double-leading-
tone cadences
•3rds and 6ths, not @
cadences
•3 voices, slow tenor
Missa se la face ay pale
DuFay
•cantus firmus mass
•3/4
•Landini cadences
•3rds and 6ths, not @
cadences
•4 voices, cantus firmus
tenor
Je ne puis vivre
Busnoys
•virelai, AbbaA
•3/4, 6/8
•not medieval cadences
•3rds and 6ths throughout
•3 equal voices, imitation
Missa de plus en plus
Ockeghem
•cantus firmus mass
•some cadences like V-I
•3rds and 6ths,not @
cadences
•4 equal voices
Missa Prolationum
Ockeghem
•Canon (imitation)
8. Jacob Obrecht (1457 or 8—1505)
• Masses, motets, chansons,
Dutch songs, instrumental
pieces
• Cantus-firmus masses
• Point of imitation—passage
in a polyphonic work in
which 2 or more voices enter
in imitation
• Cadences
• Short, clearly defined phrases
• Smooth consonant
counterpoint, suspensions,
passing tones, neighbor
tones
9. Heinricus Isaac (ca. 1450 or 55 to 1517)
• Worked for
– Medici in Florence (1484-1492)
– Maximilian I (Holy Roman
Emperor) in Vienna & Innsbruck
(1497--)
• International style
• Sacred masses, Motets
• Mass proper settings
• Secular French, Italian, German songs
• Instrumental (assumed—no words)
• In Florence, heard homophonic style,
adapted to German lied, 4-part
settings of popular songs, newly
composed melodies
– Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
• cadences resolve to triads
• clear structure
10. Josquin Des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)
• Positions in France & Italy
• Large number of manuscripts and printed anthologies
• Text depiction—musical gestures reinforce images in text
• Text expression—music conveys emotion
• Imitation & homophony
• Motets
– Freely composed (not based on previous material)
– Clarity in phrasing, form, tonal organization
– Fluid tuneful melodies
– Ave maria…virgo serena
• Masses
– Secular tune as cantus firmus
• Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales
– Imitation mass—borrows from all voices of another polyphonic
work
• Missa Malheur
– Paraphrase mass—all 4 voices based on monophonic work
• Missa Pange lingua
– Kyrie
– Credo
• Chansons
– strophic, all voices sung, equal voices, no formes fixes
– Mille regretz
11. 5 Ways Vocal Polyphony Changed
During the Renaissance
Medieval Renaissance
17. 1420-1450
Dunstable, Binchois, DuFay
1450-1480
Ockeghem, Busnoys
1480-1520
Obrecht, Isaac, Des Prez
Renaissance Musical Development
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L
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R
M
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S
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S
Resveilles Vous
DuFay
•ballade, aabC
•6/8
•Landini, double-leading-
tone cadences
•3rds and 6ths, not @
cadences
•3 voices, slow tenor
Missa se la face ay pale
DuFay
•cantus firmus mass
•3/4
•Landini cadences
•3rds and 6ths, not @
cadences
•4 voices, cantus firmus
tenor
Je ne puis vivre
Busnoys
•virelai, AbbaA
•3/4, 6/8
•not medieval cadences
•3rds and 6ths throughout
•3 equal voices, imitation
Missa de plus en plus
Ockeghem
•cantus firmus mass
•some cadences like V-I
•3rds and 6ths,not @
cadences
•4 equal voices
Missa Prolationum
Ockeghem
•Canon (imitation)
Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
Isaac
•polyphonic lied
•2/2
•V-I cadences
•triads
•4 equal voices, homophonic
Missa Pange Lingua
Des Prez
•paraphrase mass
•3/2; 2/2
•triadic cadences, some V-I
•triads throughout
•4 equal voices, imitation
alternating with homophony
Missa Malheur me bat
Des Prez
•imitation mass