Music 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sistine Chapel Choir, Pope Sixtus Iv, Firstvoices
17 Mar 2016
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Josquin"s ave maria: five principal marian feasts mentioned in text. Clear-cut cadences music comes to a point of arrival, a point of closure. Seamless overlapping phrases: model of structural and tonal clarity. Hierarchical organization: 4 prominent cadences on c, motet divided into. 4 sections: probably born c. 1450, might have learned music from ockeghem, singer for duke of anjou, making the iter italicum, famous lament on the death of ockeghem: nymphes des bois. Text by important burgundian court poet: jean molinet. Lists four names of people to lament (he was one) Glareanus has a good analysis of josquin: illibata dei virgo nutrix. Composed during his years in the sistine chapel. Comes from musical pitch system known as solmization (e. g. [do] re mi. La mi la ma ri a maria! Holy shit josquin puts his name as an acrostic iosqvin des prez: el grillo. A song about a cricket who is a good singer who just sings for fun.
