Music Listening Review Lists

Renaissance

Please review the following musical forms:

Chanson (Rondeaux) by Gilles Binchois (pg. 108-109)

1. De plus en plus, tenor

C. F. Tenor Mass

2. Missa De plus en plus by Johannes Ockeghem

- This mass uses a tenor cantus firmus as its framework

- The C.F. comes from the tenor of Binchois’s chanson

The Frottola

3. El Grillo (Frottola) by Josquin Des Prez (pg. 126)

-Preceeded the Madrigal

-Simple four-part strophic song form with the melody in the upper voice

-It may have influenced the development of the Parisian Chanson

The Motet

4. Ave Maria by Josquin Des Prez (pg. 118-119)

-He uses imitation

-Each musical phrased is assigned a “musical subject” this is then passed along through other voices

-His music is ever flowing with limited points of rests

The Paraphrased Mass

5. Missa Pange Lingua by Josquin Des Prez (pg. 120-21)