 Listen attentively.

 Participate.
 Respect each other.

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PRAYER
Lord Jesus, we give praise to Your holy name. We devote
ourselves to you because we are nothing without You. Please
forgive us for all of our sins and teach us how to become
stewards of creation. Give us the heart with full of
compassion and strong stance to always choose right from
wrong. Lord, please clear our hearts and minds so that we
can accept new things and learnings from our lesson for
today. IN JESUS NAME. AMEN

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Competencies: Explain the performance
practice (setting, composition, role of
composers/performers, and audience)
Renaissance period

Improvise appropriate accompaniment to given

Medieval and Renaissance songs.

Focused Value: Music as a medium to be

closer to God.
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 Renaissance
Music
Prepared by: Abigalle C. San Pedro

Q1 MUSIC 9 – Week 3
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 Music has a way of going into the deep
parts of our soul that assists in our
expression and response to God and the
church. Singing helps unites us in the
church. The gospel alone unites believers
with one another. Can you imagine
attending to church without music?
 RENAISSANCE PERIOD
(1400-1600)

 Comes from the word renaitre which means rebirth,

revival and rediscovery.
 “Golden Era of acapella choral music”
 Music during this period became an important leisure
activity for amateurs and the educated. Members of
the upper class (bourgeois class) were expected to
have received musical training.
 RENAISSANCE PERIOD
(1400-1600)

• Lute is their prominent

instrument.
• Influence of Roman Catholic
Music started to decline as the new
genre arose.
 RENAISSANCE PERIOD
(1400-1600)

Secular music became

prominent.
 CHARACTERISTICS

 Mostly polyphonic

 Used both instrumental and vocal; flutes, harps,

violins were some of the instruments used

 Imitation among voices is common

 VOCAL MUSIC

Mass
a form of sacred musical
composition that sets texts of
the Eucharistic liturgy into
music.
 Characteristics
• Polyphonic
• Maybe sung acapella or with orchestral
accompaniment
 VOCAL MUSIC

Madrigal
secular vocal polyphonic music
composition. It was written and
expressed in a poetic text and
sung during social gatherings.

 Characteristics
a. Polyphonic b. Sung acapella
b. Through-composed d. 3 to 6 voices
 COMPOSERS

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

• The great master of Roman Catholic
Church
• Majority of his works are sacred music.
• Organist and choir master in Sistine Chapel
and St. Peter’s Basilica
 COMPOSERS

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

• Organist and
choir master in
Sistine Chapel
and St. Peter’s
Basilica
COMPOSITION: Kyrie “ Pope Marcellus Mass”
 COMPOSERS

Thomas Morley
• Singer in the local cathedral during his
childhood and became master of
choristers.
• Most of his madrigal compositions are light
and easy to sing.
• Musica Transalpina (collection of Italian
madrigals fitted with English Text).
COMPOSITION: - Fire, Fire, My Heart, Sing and Chant It,
and Fantasie