MUS 1751 Chapter : 3rd Class
Document Summary
People became interested in developing and working with musical instruments. Vielle, harp, lute, rebec, flute, recorder, trumpet, sackbut, shawm, cornetto. Originated in italy, a rebirth of interest in the fine arts poetry, painting, music, and architecture. Secular musics rises in importance and starts to be placed alongside sacred music. Humanism: people have the capacity to shape and create their own world, view themselves as important for being creative and start signing and taking credit for their art work. Worked in italy for various dukes in milant and ferrara and for the pope in. He was temperamental and egotistical, he demanded high pay and only wrote when he wanted to. Composers of the renaissance still wrote masses but they turned their attentions to a new form called the motet. Motet: composition for choir, in latin on a sacred subject. these were to be sung in the church or chapel or in the home for private devotionals.
