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Renaissance Music: Early Medieval
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Renaissance Music for Guitar is a book that will appeal to many types of guitarists. First, the book provides a quick overview of the history of the guitar and lute, plus examples of early tablature for the lute. For the intermediate student who wants to build up their repertoire with high quality pieces while exploring renaissance music, the book is perfect. Most of the pieces are readily accessible by an intermediate student. These are tunes you will want to play over and over, so learning them is a pleasurable experience. For the professional that is looking to expand their repertoire for jobs, this book is ideal.
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Renaissance music was therefore differentiated from the late medieval style that preceded it by such purely musical features as its greater melodic and rhythmic integration, enlarged range and texture, and subjection to harmonic principles of order. After 1500 this integrated style developed into distinct vocal and instrumental idioms, and vocal music, under the influence of humanism, became increasingly devoted to the expression of texts. By 1600 harmony had come to dominate polyphony, and instrumental music was liberated from the forms and styles of vocal music. At that point, Renaissance musical style was eclipsed by a new style--the baroque.
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Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century. Additionally, the process by which music acquired "Renaissance" characteristics was a gradual one, and musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s. It is safe to state that the Italian humanist movement, uncovering and proliferating the aesthetics of antique Roman and Greek art, contributed to an accelerated revalidation of music on a conceptual level, but its direct influence on music theory, composition and performance remains suggestive.
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In 1989, he sold Radio Tokyo to pursue his growing interest in medieval and renaissance music. He began full-time study of the Hurdy-Gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument that is played by turning a crank. He ... learned to play the nyckelharpa, a medieval Scandinavian stringed instrument played with a bow, and moved to Sweden for several months to take lessons. He recorded several albums using a medieval instruments and performed at many festivals, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Two of his records - 1995's "Shaking Hands With Kafka" and "What Rough Beast" in 1996 - received little commercial success but did generated many positive reviews for his originality. Most recently, the eerie sound of his hurdy-gurdy was used in the soundtrack of the Susan Sarandon movie "Ice Bound."
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The years during the Renaissance mark a distinct change in the musical world. Musical style itself altered completely. Songs were embellished and consisted of a variety of genres. More parts were added to many types of music, the rhythm varied, and intervals between notes and chords were played often. “One of the most noticeable differences between Medieval and Renaissance styles, is that of musical texture. Whereas a Medieval composer tended to contrast the separate strands of his music, a Renaissance composer aimed to blend them together.” (Fuller, Richard, “Renaissance Music (1450-1600)) This music started predominately in the church, but as time went on spread throughout many venues.
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The polyphonic style of the late Renaissance was perfected in the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594), Orlando di Lasso (or Lassus) (1532-1594), and William Byrd (1543-1623). These three form the dominant trio of the later Renaissance, in parallel with Dufay, Ockeghem and Josquin in the early Renaissance. With this generation, the basic Western contrapuntal idiom is fully defined.
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