RENAISSANCE

PERIOD
1450 1600

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RENAISSANCE PERIOD
1450 1600

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 AGE OF
HUMAN CREATIVITY

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 HUMANISM
A movement

Focus:

Human life and

its accomplishments

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 Telescope - GALILEO
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 CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS

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 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Renaissance started
in
ITALY.

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 * Great artists were born
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael

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 The Last Supper
By
Leonardo da Vinci
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 Mona Lisa
by

LEONARDO DA
VINCI

Painted in 1404, took

6 years to complete.

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 The
Renaissance
Man

Da Vinci

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 RAPHAEL

SCHOOL OF ATHENS
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 Pieta by Michelangelo

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 Ceiling of the
SISTINE
CHAPEL

Michelangelo

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 * Time of inventions

Printing press
Availability of books on how
to play instruments made information
available to anybody

Before the Renaissance,

music had to be copied by
hand

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 Printing press
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 The Renaissance was turning
from God to man.
Science and the arts were
becoming more important

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 Renaissance
Music

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The nobles and the royal courts used music
to show the wealth and power of their countries
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a capella
Singing without accompaniment

Vocal music was

still more important than
instrumental music.

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 SONG FORMS

1.Madrigals
Song for several voices set to a short poem
usually talks about love

Lyrics-vernacular language

Very emotional, with feelings,expressive

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 MADRIGAL COMPOSER

Thomas Morley Page 23

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 Most prominent
secular music
or madrigal

Greensleeves

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GREENSLEEVES
Alas my love you__ do me wrong
To__ cast me off___ discourteously
And I have loved____you so long
Delighting in__ your company

Greensleeves__ was all my joy

And greensleeves___was my delight
Greensleeves was my heart of gold
And___who but my ladys___greensleeeves

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 2. MASS
Important part of the
Catholic Church's
religious service.
The mass would be

sung in Latin.

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 Luigi Palestrina Prince of Music

Sacred
music

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 Luigi
Palestrina

Prince of Music

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