Introduction To Renaissance Choral Music

Senfl (1486-1543) And Germanic Territories

Table Of Contents

Introduction To Renaissance Choral Music
History Of The Mass
Palestrina And The Counter-Reformation
Dufay And The Isorhythmic Motet
Josquin Desprez And His Motets
Spain And Morales
England And Tallis

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Germany failed to produce any significant composers up to middle of the fifteen century. The bulk of the compositions up until that time were lieder, relatively simple songs of a secular nature. Just as Franco-Flemish musicians took the newly defined style of the Latin motet to Spain, so also did they take it to the regions of Germanic culture. One of the key figures was undoubtedly Senfl . His motet-style compositions are modeled firmly on the great Netherlanders, Isaac and Josquin, whose work he studied intensively, and show a reliance on their compositional technique. The development of the Latin motet was inhibited in some areas by the Reformation, which emphasized congregational participation and the use of the vernacular Latin masses were composed by protestant composers who incorporated the polyphony associated with the church. By the second half of the 16th century, polyphonic settings of Latin texts - many by Catholic composers - gradually regained ascendancy over music sung in the vernacular during Lutheran services. Musically these territories were so divided by political turmoil it is almost impossible to describe a national trait

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