MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Homorhythm, Protestantism, Middle Ages
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Music 1a03 - lecture 11 - introduction to renaissance. The renaissance (1425- 1600: follows the middle ages, french word for rebirth, recovery of ideals from antiquity (which came before the middle ages) > martin luther (1483-1546: had problems with the church, he nailed a list of complaints against the. Catholic church on the door of a wittengberg church: martin luther believed that there was corruption in the church + the catholics had weakening spirituality. Luther"s ideas caught on quickly, branch of protestants arise. A mighty fortress is our god (1529: hymn with music and text by luther (vocal music, sacred) Therefore, single melody with accompaniment (could by lower vocal parts or organ) > homorhythmic: all the parts follow more or less the same kind of rhythm, > makes it easy to hear the words. > the music is in german, luther wanted more people to come to church (make church more accessible to people, even if they don"t know latin)
