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Broken Consort: Pipes and Tabor
This is a performer playing the tabor drum and the Pipes (a bit like a tin whistle)
The tabor plays a repeated pattern, Ostinato, and the pipes play the melody.
Because there are both percussion and woodwind instruments here we describe this as a broken consort.
Renaissance Recorder Consort
homophonic, group of recorders playing this jolly little tune.
A consort is a group of instruments of a similar type.….
If there was a drum or a reeded instrument or string instrument included, you describe this as a Broken Consort.
Renaissance Mass: Sanctus
The notes are tied together in this piece of music with respect for the fact that Renaissance Masses weren’t in strict time. The time was much free-er.
There are changes in melodic direction here.
You can identify a Mass by listening out for words such as, Sanctus, Gloria, Kyrie Eleison in the lyrics. In the renaissance, they were performed as parts of the Mass. They were unaccompanied at this time or, A capella.
Renaissance Motet- If ye Love Me: Thomas Tallis
A beautiful motet, sung in English by an SATB choir in harmony, plenty of imitation (when the voice parts copy each other). A capella (unaccompanied).
Renaissance Motet- Ave Verum: William Byrd
This hauntingly beautiful motet, with Latin text would be sung at the processional or offertory procession at a Mass. It is referred to as a Sacred work because it is religious. Full of imitation, hemiolas, minor mode, and sung beautifully a cappella by an SATB choir.
Ballett: It was a lover and his lass
A type of Renaissance madrigal with chorus and refrain with nonsense syllables (hey ding a ding a ding a ding, with a hey and a ho and a hey noni noni no) Ballets often had a fa lalalala refrain.
performed by a soprano and a lute player.
Madrigal with score to follow the melody.”April is in my mistress face”
Harmony, Homophonic, Hemiola (when a note is carried across a barline giving the impression of a move to 2-4 or 3-4- at the end of a piece it is used to help slow down) SATB, Pedal note in the bass part.
A beautiful sounding piece of music
Madrigal
Homophonic piece of music (all the voices move together), chorus and refrain. Secular (non religious song) in close harmony.
Major Mode ( a Mode is the Renaissance period’s answer to Key Signatures)
I will now begin to add some links to good pages about music history.
I will begin with the Renaissance period in musical history.1450-1600.
There is a fantastic page that includes all the information that school or college students studying Higher or Advanced Higher music need to know about. You can hear sound samples and do some revision here for your test on the Renaissance.
