An Outline of The History of Western Music Grout ... - The Reel Score

g) Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565) - exemplifies the Petrarchan Movement's treatment
of words & music
3. Later Madrigalists
a) the leading madrigalists toward the end of the 16th century were Italians
b) Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
(1) most important as a church composer
(2) equally at home with the madrigal, chanson, & lied
c) Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)
(1) productive in both sacred & secular domains
(2) worked under the Hapsburg Emperors in Vienna & Prague
d) Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)
(1) born near Antwerp, but spent almost entire life in Italy
(2) continued to develop the madrigal composition begun by Rore
e) Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
(1) favored pastoral poetry
(2) most celebrated madrigal is Solo e pensoso on Petrarch's sonnet
f) Carlo Gesualdo (ca. 1561-1613)
(1) came under the influence of Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545-1607) who improvised
on Vecentino's chromatic-enharmonic arcicembalo and a specially built
enharmonic organ
(2) Gesualdo's chromaticism was a deeply moving response to the text
g) Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1605)
(1) his compositions made the crucial stylistic transition from the polyphonic vocal
ensemble to the instrumentally accompanied solo and duet
(2) his first five books of madrigals (1587-1605) are monuments in the history of
the polyphonic madrigal
(3) his compositions indicate that Monteverdi was moving swiftly toward a new
idiom
i) many of the musical motives are not melodic but declamatory - in the
manner of the later recitative
ii) the texture often departs from the medium of equal voices and becomes a
duet over a harmonically supporting bass
iii) ornamental dissonances and embellishments - previously occurring only in
improvisation were written into the score
4. Secualar Songs outside of Italy
a) France
(1) French composers of the early 16th century continued to write Masses &
motets in a modified version of the prevailing style
(2) Parisian chanson
i) during the reign of Francis I (1515-1547) composers working in and around
Paris developed a type of chanson called the "Parisian chanson" - more
distinctively national in both poetry & music
a- a light, fast, strongly rhythmic song for four voices