Transcript Renaissance english music

Renaissance english
music
Renaissance english
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Renaissance = re-birth of classic Greece & Rome in art and literature.
Humanism= the Church should only rule on spiritual matters, & people
control their destinies.
Universities: History, Geography, Languages, Poetry.
Guttemberg's Printing Press. Movable types. Books available for everyone!
Books are more affordable. Printing of Greek and Roman manuscripts.
Standarization of English language!!!
A Renaissance Man: a man with a wide span of interests and abilities:
languages, poetry, science, swordmanship, wooing,...
Exploration: America, Newfoundland, …
1517: Luteran Protestant Reformation. Interpretations of the Bible!!!
Lutherans, Calvinists,Presbyterians, Anglicans/Puritans,...
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English Royal Family: The Tudors.
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Henry VIII: really popular, good looking, ladies' man. 6 wives,
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Catherine of Aragon:no male heir → enter Anne Boleyn → divorce.
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Schism from Catholic Roman church → he granted his own divorce.
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Dissolution of Monasteries.
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Catherine of Aragon (daughter: Mary), Anne Boleyn (daughter: Elizabeth I),
Jane Seymour (son Edward VII), Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard,
Catherine Parr.
Edward VII (protestant)→ Lady Jane Grey (protestant, 9 days!) → Princess
Mary (catholic, bloody Mary)→ Elizabeth I (protestant)
Elizabeth I : England settles into protestantism, never married – sole
monarch (Virgin Queen), very smart, strong supporter of the Arts.
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Elizabethan poetry and drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Elizabethan sonnet.
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The Stuarts: James I (king of Scotland, protestant, protector of the Arts.
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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic
movement in England dating from the late 15th and early
16th centuries to the early 17th century. It is associated
with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually
regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.
Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these
developments until more than a century later. The
beginning of the English Renaissance is often taken, as a
convenience, to be 1485, when the Battle of Bosworth
Field ended the Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the
Tudor Dynasty. Renaissance style and ideas, however,
were slow in penetrating England, and the Elizabethan
era in the second half of the 16th century is usually
regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.
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English Renaissance music kept in touch with continental developments, and
managed to survive the Reformation relatively successfully, though William
Byrd and other major figures were Catholic. The Elizabethan madrigal was
distinct from, but related to the Italian tradition. Thomas Tallis, Thomas
Morley, and John Dowland were other leading English composers.
The Italian and English Renaissances were similar in sharing a specific musical
aesthetic. In the late 16th century Italy was the musical center of Europe, and
one of the principal forms which emerged from that singular explosion of
musical creativity was the madrigal. In 1588, Nicholas Yonge published a
collection of Italian madrigals that had been Anglicized—an event which began
a vogue of madrigal in England which was an instantaneous adoption of an
idea, from another country, adapted to local aesthetics. English poetry was
exactly at the right stage of development for this to occur, since forms such as
the sonnet were uniquely adapted to setting as madrigals
Renaissance english
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Renaissance english
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The English Madrigal School was the brief but intense flowering of the musical
madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who
produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in
style, and generally began as either copies or direct translations of Italian
models. Most were for three to six voices.
John Dowland[1] (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance
composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy
songs
In 1597, Dowland published his First Book of Songs in London. It was one of the
most influential and important musical publications of the history of the lute.
This collection of lute-songs was set out in a way that allows performance by a
soloist with lute accompaniment or various combinations of singers and
instrumentalists.
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'Remember O thou Man', by Thomas
Ravenscroft (1582-1635)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ifpTNw29g
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'Greensleeves', composed by Henry VIII
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5HfegVyKw
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