The music of the Catholic church during the time of the Protestant Reformation was highly imitative and essentially “Josquin taken to the next level,” as exemplified in the motets by this composer
What is Nicholas Gombert
100
This through-composed form developed in Florence around 1520
What is the madrigal
100
This term, literally meaning “new song,” referred to a genre of music popular in the court of King Francis I which featured pleasant (and sometimes bawdy!) texts set in a syllabic, homophonic fashion
What is chanson nouvelle
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Listening example—Name the piece and composer of the piece I play
What is “Ein Feste Burg,” Johann Walther
100
Clément Janequin, known for his onomatopoetic settings, wrote a rather earthy setting of a poem about a peasant by this name taking his pig to market
What is Martin
200
In the Lutheran service, most of the musical elements of the liturgy were replaced with strophic poetic texts set to easily singable tunes called this.
What is chorales
200
This earlier Italian poet became a favorite of composers of madrigals; one instance of a madrigal using his poem is Marenzio’s “Solo e pensoso”
What is Petrarch
200
This French poetry was a sort of failed attempt to reintroduce ancient Greek and Latin poetic meters into French poetry and music
What is musique mesurée
200
This composer of many genres (including motets, masses, madrigals, and chansons) also wrote 90 German lieder
What is Orlando di Lasso
200
This is another name for the Chanson Nouvelle, a geographic name that isn’t precisely accurate
What is Parisian Chanson
300
This English equivalent of the motet for the Anglican church was sung by the choir and drew its texts from the Bible or the Book of Common Prayer—an example would be William Byrd’s “Sing Joyfully Unto God”
What is Anthem
300
This term refers to literal musical depictions of text, named for a genre in which it commonly occurred
What is madrigalism
300
This group of French poets came together to reject Marot’s low-brow poetry and return beauty and elegance and add a natural feel to French poetry
What is the Pléïades
300
This listening example by P.D.Q. Bach parodies the well-known Ballet, “My bonnie Lass she smileth” by which composer?
What is Thomas Morley
300
What incident, taking place in the 1480s, does no one ever expect?
What is The Spanish Inquisition
400
In the Calvinist church, the only permitted music were these, rhymed settings of Biblical songs
What is metrical psalm
400
This composer is one of the best-known writers of early madrigals; we studied one titled “Il bianco e dolce cigno”
What is Arcadelt
400
This court poet of Francis I not only wrote the poetry for many, many chansons, but he also helped Calvin translate the Bible into French and create French metrical psalms
What is Clément Marot
400
The song “Flow my tears” by Dowland is set polyphonically for voice and this stringed instrument
What is the Lute
400
The Missa O Magnum Mysterium is this kind of a mass, drawing material from Victoria’s motet by the same name
What is an Imitation Mass
500
This mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is credited (in a somewhat fantastical way) with saving polyphony in the Catholic church by convincing the council of Trent that the words could be intelligible in a polyphonic setting
What is the Pope Marcellus Mass
500
This important theorist based his musical aesthetics and compositional rules on the music of his teacher, Adrian Willaert
What is Gioseffo Zarlino
500
This first French printer of music used single-impression printing, a much less costly way to print music, allowing him to print more than twenty-five volumes of chansons nouvelles
What is Pierre Attaignant
500
This collection of English madrigals, assembled by Thomas Morley, supposedly pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth I
What is the Triumphs of Oriana
500
The main difference between English canzonetts and this genre of song is that the latter has a “fa la la” chorus