French for “song”

Held line

Greatest composer of his time

Preferred intervals for composers

Independent lines of melody of equal importance with accompaniment

Time of “rebirth.” Period of art, cultural, and musical history between Middle Ages and baroque period. Marked by humanism, revival of ancient culture and ideas, and a new focus on the individual, the world, and the senses

More frequent use of duple meter, longer melodies in chanson, more imitation, greater polyphony/equality of voices

a court Guillame du Fay was associated with

Backwards statement of previously hard melody, passage, 12 tone row-“Upside down and backwards”

Musical texture over in which all voices move together in the same rhythm. (One melody split into harmonies)

Associated with Burgundian court, international style

Dukes in the low European countries and Northern France , most important of the time. Wealthy private citizens who commissioned art.

Where the imitation happens in polyphony

Polyphonic vocal composition, isorythmic during the Renaissance.

Landing on 8th and 5th, short well defined melodies, tunes with clear and defined texts, point of imitation, even rhythm meter and entrances

How many chansons, masses, and motets did Josquin compose?

English quality, harmonic 3rds and 6ths

Contrapuntal texture marked by imitation between voices

Most notable English composer of the 15th century

Monophonic, 2-3 voices in English or Latin, related to Christmas, Mary, or religion in general