With more than 1,500 separate works and 88 different named composers represented (as well as many anonymous pieces), this is the largest and most significant single European musical source of the Renaissance.Īnthem: A sacred polyphonic vocal work with an English text, used in the liturgy of the Anglican church.Ĭarol: A name for an English two- or three-part setting of a religious poem in popular style, often with alternating solo and choral portions.Ĭhanson: In the Renaissance, this is a French song for several voices, which may be accompanied by instruments.Ĭonsort Music: Music written for "consorts" of instruments, such as recorders, viols, lutes.Ĭyclic Mass: In Renaissance music, a "cyclic mass" was a setting of the Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) that shared a common musical theme in each movement (usually a cantus firmus), thus making it a unified whole. Trent Codices: A collection of seven large music manuscripts compiled in the mid-1400s (now housed in Trent, Italy) that contain mainly sacred vocal music composed between 14.
Treatise: In music, a formal written document that studies some aspect of music theory and/or performance practice. Texture: The number of lines in a musical composition and their interrelationship (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, imitative, etc.). Successive Composition: The process of writing a musical composition one layer at a time (in the Medieval and early Renaissance eras, usually the tenor voice, then the top voice, and then the middle voice). Simultaneous Composition: The process of considering and writing all voice parts of a musical composition at the same time, which allows for imitation, better voice leading to control dissonance, and consideration of a fundamental harmonic bass line. Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practical Music: An important English musical treatise published by Thomas Morley in 1597. Orchesographie : The most detailed instructions on dance choreography and dance music of the Renaissance are contained in this 1588 source. Old Hall Manuscript: This mid-14th-century royal collection contains nearly 150 pieces of English sacred polyphony. Odhecaton A: This set of 96 pieces published by Petrucci in 1501 is the first collection of polyphonic music printed entirely with movable type. Musica Transalpina: ("Music across the Alps") A printed anthology of Italian popular music translated into English and published in England in 1588. Musica Reservata: This term applies to High/Late Renaissance composers who "suited the music to the meaning of the words, expressing the power of each affection." A section of freer echoing in this manner if often referred to as a "point of imitation" strict imitation is called "canon." Imitation: A polyphonic musical texture in which a melodic idea is freely or strictly echoed by successive voices. Homophonic: A polyphonic musical texture in which all voices move together note-for-note in chordal fashion, and when there is a text it is rendered at the same time in all voices.
Glogauer Liederbuch: This German part-book from the 1470s is a collection of 3-part instrumental arrangements of popular French songs (chanson). Only two of the three voices were notated (the chant/cantus firmus, and a voice a sixth below) the third voice was "realized" by a singer a 4th below the chant. Cantus firmus: ("Fixed song") The process of using a pre-existing tune as the structural basis for a new polyphonic composition.Ĭhoralis Constantinus: A collection of over 350 polyphonic motets (using Gregorain chant the cantus firmus) written by the German composer Heinrich Isaac and his pupil Ludwig Senfl.Ĭontenance angloise: ("The English sound") A term for the style or quality of music that writers on the continent associated with the works of John Dunstable (mostly triadic harmony, which sounded quite different than late Medieval music).Ĭounterpoint: Combining two or more independent melodies to make an intricate polyphonic texture.įauxbourdon : A musical texture prevalent in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, produced by three voices in mostly parallel motion first-inversion triads.
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