Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007

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Listening List, Part II:
Renaissance Music

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Ancient and Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque

Table of Contents

• English Music and Dunstable
• Burgundy, Du Fay, and Binchois
• Netherlanders: From Ockeghem to the generation of Obrecht and Isaac
• Josquin des Prez
• The Reformation
• Catholic Church music from the Reformation through Palestrina
• Catholic music in Spain, the New World, and Germany
• Secular song: Spanish villancico and Italian madrigal
• Secular song in France and England
• Renaissance instrumental music: instruments and genres
• The late sixteenth century: Byrd and the Venetian school

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Performers for the NAWM excerpts are listed on the jacket that contains the CDs. Performers for the Supplementary Recordings are listed here.

English music and Dunstable

• NAWM 31. Alleluia: A newë work, carol (first half of the 15th century)
  
  
• NAWM 32. John Dunstable, Quam pulchra es, motet or cantilena (first half of the 15th century)

Burgundy, Du Fay, and Binchois

• NAWM 33. Binchois (Gilles de Bins), De plus en plus, rondeau (ca. 1425)
  
  
• NAWM 34. Guillaume Du Fay, Resvellies vous, ballade (1423)
  
  
• NAWM 35. Guillaume Du Fay, Conditor alme siderum, hymn in fauxbourdon style, in alternation with chant (ca. 1430)
  
  
• NAWM 36a. Guillaume Du Fay, Se la face ay pale, ballade (1430s)
  
  
• NAWM 36b. Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Se la face ay pale, cantus firmus mass, excerpt: Gloria (ca. 1450s)

Netherlanders: From Ockeghem to the generation of Obrecht and Isaac

• NAWM 37. Jean de Ockeghem, Missa De plus en plus, cantus firmus mass, excerpt: Agnus Dei (second half of the fifteenth century)
  
  
• NAWM 38. Henricus Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, Lied (ca. 1500)

Josquin des Prez

• NAWM 39. Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria . . . virgo serena, motet (ca. 1484-85)
  
  
• Supplemental Recording #2: Josquin des Prez, Missa Pange lingua, paraphrase mass (ca. 1520)
  • Plainchant hymn, Pange lingua gloriosi
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria
  • Credo
  • Sanctus and Benedictus
  • Agnus Dei

  The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips
  Early Music Archives BAF2440, tracks 1-6
  score on reserve: M2011 .D42 P2 1977
  score will be on Variations 2 [currently in process]

• NAWM 40. Josquin des Prez, Missa Pange lingua, Mass (ca. 1520), excerpts: Kyrie and part of the Credo
  
  
• NAWM 41. Josquin des Prez (?), Mille regretz, chanson (ca. 1520)

The Reformation

• NAWM 42a+. Attributed to St. Ambrose, Veni redemptor gentium, hymn (sometime between 4th and 12th centuries)
  
  
• NAWM 42b. Martin Luther, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, chorale (ca. 1524)
  
  
• NAWM 42c. Martin Luther, Ein' feste Burg, chorale (ca. 1529)
  
  
• NAWM 42d. Johann Walter, Ein' fest Burg, chorale setting (ca. 1530s-1540s)
  
  
• NAWM 43a. Loys Bourgeois, Psalm 134 (Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur), metrical psalm (ca. 1551)
  
  
• NAWM 43b. William Kethe, Psalm 100 (All people that on earth do dwell), metrical psalm (ca. 1559)
  
  
• NAWM 44. William Byrd, Sing joyfully unto God, full anthem (1580s-1590s)

Catholic Church music from the Reformation through Palestrina

• NAWM 45. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass, excerpts: Credo and Agnus Dei I (ca. 1560, published 1567)

Catholic music in Spain, the New World, and Germany

• NAWM 46a. Tomás Luis de Victoria, O magnum mysterium, motet (ca. 1570, published 1572)
  
  
• NAWM 46b. Tomás Luis de Victoria, Missa O magnum mysterium, imitation mass, excerpt: Kyrie (ca. 1580s, published 1592)
  
  
• NAWM 47. Orlando di Lasso, Tristis est anima mea, motet (ca. 1565)

Secular song: Spanish villancico and Italian madrigal

• NAWM 48. Juan del Encina, Oy comamos y bebamos, villancico (late 15th century)
  
  
• NAWM 49. Marco Cara, Io non compro più speranza, frottola (ca. 1500)
  
  
• NAWM 50. Jacob Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal (ca. 1538)
  
  
• NAWM 51. Cipriano de Rore, Da le belle contrade d'oriente, madrigal (ca. 1560-65)
  
  
• NAWM 52. Luca Marenzio, Solo e pensoso, madrigal (1590s)
  
  
• NAWM 53. Carlo Gesualdo, "Io parto" e non più dissi, madrigal (ca. 1600)

Secular song in France and England

• NAWM 54. Claudin de Sermisy, Tant que vivray, chanson (ca. 1528)
  
  
• NAWM 55. Claude Le Jeune, Revecy venir du printans, chanson (late 16th century)
  
  
• NAWM 56. Thomas Morley, My bonny lass she smileth, ballett (ca. 1595)
  
  
• NAWM 57. Thomas Weelkes, As Vesta was, madrigal (ca. 1601)
  
  
• NAWM 58. John Dowland, Flow, my tears, air or lute song (ca. 1600)

Renaissance instrumental music: Instruments and genres

• NAWM 59. Pierre Attaingnant (publisher), Dances from Danseries a 4 Parties, second book (published 1547): Basse danse and Branle gay
  
  
• NAWM 60a. Luis de Narváez, Cancion Mille regres, intabulation of Josquin's Mille regretz (ca. 1538)
  
  
• NAWM 60a. Luis de Narváez, Cuatro diferencias sobre "Guárdame las vacas" [Four Variations on "Guárdame las vacas"], variation set (ca. 1538)

The late sixteenth century: Byrd and the Venetian school

• NAWM 61. William Byrd, Pavana Lachrymae, pavane variations (ca. 1600)
  
  
• NAWM 62. Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon septimi toni a 8, ensemble canzona, from Sacrae symphoniae, ca. 1597

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Ancient and Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque

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