Samstag, 8.

September 2018

Guitar Class
Overview
E octatonic scale

Music history

Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to
eight, and most frequently from three to six.
It is quite distinct from the Italian Trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th
centuries, with which it shares only the name.

Madrigals originated in Italy during the 1520s. Unlike many strophic forms of the
time. most madrigals were through-composed. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to
express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes
individual words, of a celebrated poem.

Renaissance

Genres

Principal liturgical (church-based) musical forms which remained in use throughout the
Renaissance period were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end
of the era, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt secular (non-religious)
musical forms (such as the madrigal) for religious use.
The 15th and 16th century masss had two kinds of sources that were used, monophonic (a
single melody line) and polyphonic (multiple, independent melodic lines), with two main forms of
elaboration, based on cantus firmus practice or, beginning sometime around 1500, the new
style of “pervasive imitation”, in which composers would write music in which the different voices
or parts would imitate the melodic and/or rhythmic motifs performed by others voices or parts,
Four main types of masses were used:

● Cantus firmus mass (tenor mass)

● The cantus firmus/imitation mass
● The paraphrase mass
● The imitation mass (parody mass)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through-composed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_music#Genres
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http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.13.19.2/mto.13.19.2.cumming.html