In the Medieval period western music was dictated by the church and was restricted by religious text. In this paper, I will show how composers move away from complicated, biblical numerical symbolism and academic elitism into simplicity and immediacy for the enjoyment of the masses. Through the rebirth of the Classical Greek and Roman ideas, composers find newness and creativity through musical variations within the motet, the cyclic mass, and the chanson. Although it is difficult to clearly define the beginning of the Renaissance, there are particular aspects of this new music that were so monumental that it is impossible to deny the rebirth of music around the 1400s. Guillaume de Machaut's mass, "La Messe de Nostre Dame " (Mass of Our Lady), is a polyphonic mass written in the setting of the ordinary mass. Machaut uses numerical symbols relating to the bible, which could only be understood if one were to study the mass in its entirety. This mass is a classic case of non-immediate Medieval, pre-Renaissance music. Common characteristics of Medieval (6th-15th c.) music are its monophonic, chant-based notions. .
Although the Renaissance held on to some of the key characteristics of the Medieval period for formalizing purposes, there is much evidence that composers were intentionally trying new techniques. The chants are written all for the same voice ranges and typically isorhythmic, a technique that held over through the beginning of the Renaissance period. From the 9th-13th c., composers added second, third, and fourth parts to create polyphony within chants. Melodically, composers used heterophony and never repeated melodies, which composers do later in the Renaissance to add to the immediacy of the piece. Typically these Medieval pieces, when fellow music academics and composers analyzed them, were recognized for their complicated structure relating to melodic and rhythmic motives, color and talea.
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Evidence indicates that as a religious institution, choral singing was made mandatory for all Pietà orphans (Arnold, 1965; Kolneder, 1970), suggesting that music already existed in the Ospedale before transforming into a music school in the Baroque period. ... In the early 1600s, the sacred music of late-Renaissance in the Basilica San Marco was the centre of Venetian music; however in the late seventeenth century, the Basilica's music was gradually surpassed in popularity by the music of the ospedali (Eanes, 2009; Heller, 1997; Selfridge-Field, 1975). ... Gasparini's greatest con...
Many people associate business and its practices with greed and love for profit, which most of the times is directly related to immorality. In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethic...
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He lived in Elizabethan England, a thriving, vital Renaissance state, yet also a time of religious turmoil. ... He draws on the new (in the late 16th century) learning of the English renaissance and on topical discoveries and exploration. ...
