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Chapter 6

The Renaissance

Late RenaissanceMusic

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Key Terms

Declamation

Word painting

Mass

Motet

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Late Renaissance Style

Rooted in High Renaissance style

pioneered by Josquins generation

Remarkably stable since Josquins day

Most evident in sacred music Especially Mass and motet

Universal, international style practiced by

composers from across Europe: Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria & Byrd

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Late Renaissance Style

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Counter-Reformation

Luther, Calvin, King Henry VIII and othersbroke away from the Catholic church in theearly 1500s

The Counter-Reformation was the Catholicchurchs answer to the Reformation

Starting in 1545, Council of Trent met toreform the worship and practices of the

Catholic churchFor a time, the Council consideredbanning complex polyphonic music

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Palestrina,Pope MarcellusMass (1562)

From the Gloria

Compared with Josquins Gloria:

Palestrinas is more homophonic, easier to

follow (response to Council of Trent?)

As a result, declamation is much clearer

Six parts and varied groupings sound richerthan Josquins four-part choir

This full, sonorous, sensuous music is typicalof the late Renaissance

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Josquin vs. Palestrina

Josquin

Qui tollis peccatamundi,

MISERERE NOBIS.

Qui tollis peccatamundi,

SUSCIPEDEPRECATIONEMNOSTRAM.

Qui sedes ad dexteramPatris,

miserere nobis.

Palestrina

QUI TOLLIS PECCATAMUNDI,

MISERERE NOBIS.

QUI TOLLIS PECCATAMUNDI,

Suscipe

DEPRECATIONEMNOSTRAM.

QUI SEDES AD DEXTERAMPATRIS,

MISERERE NOBIS.

(Capital letters indicatehomophony.)

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Pope MarcellusMass, Gloria(1515)

QUI TOLLIS PECCATAMUNDI,

MISERERE NOBIS.

QUI TOLLIS PECCATA

MUNDI,Suscipe DEPRECATIONEM

NOSTRAM.

QUI SEDES AD DEXTERAMPATRIS,

MISERERE NOBIS.

You who take away the sinsof the world,

Have mercy upon us

You who take away the sins

of the world,Hear our prayer.

You who sit at the righthand of the Father,

Have mercy upon us.

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Pope MarcellusMass, Gloria

QUONIAM TU SOLUSSANCTUS,

TU SOLUS DOMINUS,

TU SOLUS ALTISSIMUS,

JESU CHRISTE,CUM SANCTO SPIRITU,

in gloria Dei Patris.

Amen.

(Capital letters indicatephrases sung in

homophony.)

For you alone are holy,

you alone are the Lord,

You alone are the most

high, Jesus Christ,With the Holy Spirit,

in the glory of God theFather.

Amen.

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Renaissance Motet

Relatively short composition using Latinwords

Text usually sacred, sometimes taken

directly from the BibleEssentially same style as Mass, alternatingbetween imitation and homophony

Often more expressive than music of theMass, with effective declamation and eventext painting