England
That is a description of the "Countenance Angloise" or "the English Quality"
What is a musical style that creates a “marvelous pleasantness” with thirds and sixths
He was the most important continental composer of the early Renaissance.
Who was Guillaume DuFay?
You have just described the new motet.
A musical setting of a liturgical text in the newer musical style, whether or not the chant melody was used; therefore, almost any polyphonic composition on a Latin text (in later years, motets could be in other languages then Latin)
The Trivium and not the Quadrivium.
To what fields of study did music belong during the Renaissance?
This is where the Renaissance first flourished.
What is Italy?
He was the most important English composer of the early Renaissance.
Who was John Dunstable
This is what was called the area in northern France and the low countries (Belgium and the Netherlands)
You have described one of several features of an early English motet.
Improvised faburden, homorhythmic textures, third and sixth sonorities, three parts, upper voice has the principal melodic line, upper voice coupled with the tenor, voices more equal in importance, in melodic quality, and rhythm
This is the new way of thinking about the relationship between music and text.
Music must be expressive of its text.
The Renaissance put an end to this, and there was only one Pope in Rome.
What was the Great Schism
Yes, that makes English music sound so pleasant and full.
Dufay's Resvellies vous et faites chiere lye
What chanson by DuFay demonstrates a combination of French and Italian musical features
Plainsong Mass
What do we call a Mass wherein each movement based on an existing chant.
Greek and Roman treatises and literary works.
What influenced the way Renaissance thinkers approach and interpreted literature and the arts?
The One Hundred Years War.
Parallel 6/3 chords in English music.
What is faburden?
Dufay's Se la face ay pale
What piece demonstrates French, Italian, AND English musical features?
Motto Mass.
A mass in which there is a noticeable musical connection by using the same thematic material for each movement, mostly beginning each movement with the same melodic motive (a head-motive)
This invention made it possible for music to be easily disseminated around Europe and better preserved.
What was the advent of printing.
The Medici and D'Estes familes.
Which families were two of the greatest patrons of the arts in Italy?
Quam pulchra es.
What is an example of the new English motet by Dunstable.
Musical features evident in DuFay's chansons Resveilles vous and Se la face ay pale. The first of those is specifically a French musical feature. The second is Italian, and third is English.
What are:
French: Forme fixes (Resveilles vous), long melismas, syncopations, free dissonances and dissonant ornamental notes, cross-rhythms between the parts: the effect produced when two conflicting rhythms are heard together, complex rhythms
Italian: smooth vocal melodies, melismas on the last accented syllable of each line of the text, a meter change after for the b section very much like the meter change of the ritornello in the madrigal.
English: tenor and cantus are equally tuneful, consonant throughout with controlled use of dissonance, an abundance of 3rds, 6ths, and full triads
Cantus Firmus Mass
What do we call a mass in which each movement is constructed using the same cantus firmus (usually in the tenor).
Humanism gave way to new perspectives on life, ideas, and art.
What is secularism?
This is where most composers were trained during the Renaissance.
What are choir schools associated with churches and cathedrals?