15 10.

(170) What are the principal types of polyphony written

by Dunstable? What's the total?
Chapter 8 Isorhhythmic motets, Mass Ordinary settings, settings of
England and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century chant, free settings of liturgical texts, secular songs; 60

1. [165] Two ___________ composers, _________ and 11. How do the antiphons and hymns fit into your list (see
___________, were praised for imitating the SR)?
______________________ of John _____________. It I guess the "20 other Latin sacred works."
was seconded a generation later by
_________________. 12. The chant is in the ________ voice. When it isn't, the
French; Du Fay; Binchois; countenance angloise (English technique is called _____________ because:
guise or quality); Dunstable; Johannes Tinctoris
Tenor; if in the upper voice it's called paraphrase, because
2. What two styles are "indebted to English influence"? extra notes are added as embellishments and the chant
New style of polyphony; polyphonic mass cycle has an active rhythm

3. (167) How did two French composers come in contact 13. (171) SR: Make a list of Dunstable's works.
with English music? John Dunstable (c. 1390-1453); 60 works; 3 Mass cycles; 2
England owned northern and southwestern France until 1453. Gloria-Credo pairs; 15 other Mass Ordinary mvts.; 12
isorhythmic motets; 6 plainchant settings; 20 other Latin
4. What are the characteristics of the English quality? sacred works; 5 secular songs.
3ds and 6ths in parallel motion; simple melodies; regular
phrasing; syllabic; homorhythmic 14. (172) Why could Quam pulchra es be called a cantilena?
Why also a motet?
5. (168) An English style has the chant in the _________ Freely composed, not based on a cantus firmus,
voice, with the _________ voice following in thirds homorhythmic, Latin text; Latin text
(occasionally going to a _____) while the ________
voice follows the chant at the interval of a _____. 15. When did the isorhythmic motet end?
Parallel _____ are to be avoided; every vertical sonority 1450
is ___________.
Middle; bottom; 5th; upper; 4th; 5ths; consonant 16. Give a generic definition of a motet? (The chart at the
bottom of the page is useful in tracing motet changes.)
6. What is the term given to this style? What is the Any polyphonic (sacred) composition (other than the Mass) on
Continental version of the term? a Latin (or other) text
Faburden; fauxbourdon
17. (173) The Duchy of _________ was at times as powerful
7. Cantilenas are related to the ______________. (You as the king of France. It was located in present-day
know what that means, don't you?) Next were the ____________________________. It ended in ______.
__________ and ___________ motet. Finally, it was Its nominal capital was ______, but other main cities
Mass ____________ texts. were:
Conductus; motet; isorhythmic; Ordinary Burgundy; Holland, Belgium, northeastern France,
Luxembourg, Lorraine; 1477; Dijon; Lille, Bruges,
8. The manuscript source for this music is the Ghent, Brussels
_______________. It contains:
18. (174) What does "cosmopolitan" mean?
TQ: Does anything surprise you about the contents? Mixture of people with different nationalities
Old Hall; Mass Ordinary, motets, hymns, sequences. It's a
little late for sequences. 19. What are the four types of compositions? How many
voices? What is the range of the top two voices? What
9. What are the characteristics of a carol? roles do the voices play?
Monophonic dance song with alternating solo and choral Secular (French) chansons, motets, Magnificats, settings of the
sections; 2- or 3-part setting; English, Latin, or mixture; Mass Ordinary; three; a to e" and c to g'; top is the
usually religious subject (Christmas, Virgin); stanzas melody, the tenor has contrapuntal support, and the CT
sung to the same music; burden (refrain) sung to its own has harmonic support.
music
20. (175) SR: What was Binchois' name? Make a list of his
works.
Gilles de Bins; 28 Mass mvts (some Gloria-Credo or Sanctus-
Agnus pairs), 6 Magnificats, 29 motets, 51 rondeaux, 7
ballades

Burkholder/Grout/Palisca, Ninth Edition, Chapter 8

21. The chanson had the form of the ____________ or (less 31. In fauxbourdon, the ________ and _______ are notated
likely) the form of the _________, and the other voice moves a _____ below the ______
Rondeau; ballade voice, except at cadences when it moves to the ______.
Du Fay has ___ pieces in this style. It is used for:
22. Most compositions were in ____ or ____ meter, but not
in ______. There were occasional cross-rhythms called Cantus, tenor, 4th, top, 5th; 24; hymns, antiphons, psalms, and
_________. canticles
3/4, 6/8, 2/4, hemiola
32. (180) TQ: What is the term to describe the practice of
23. (179) Describe the text setting. "only the even-numbered stanzas were sung
Mostly syllabic; melismas at a cadence polyphonically, alternating with the others in
plainchant."
24. Describe the contour of the parts. Alternatim practice (alternating soloist[s] and choir)
Cantus and tenor, smooth, in 3ds or 6ths; CT skips around;
everything is mostly consonant 33. What are the three styles of motet writing?
Chanson, fauxbourdon, isorhythm
25. TQ: Could you write a Burgundian cadence on d?
Yes. Cantus moves c#" to d"; tenor moves e' to d'; CT moves a 34. What was the practice of writing music for the Mass
to a' prior to 1420? It was the ________ (nationality), (181)
especially the composers _______________ and
26. (177) SR: Du Fay's music survives in about ____ ________________, who started writing cycles, starting
manuscripts copied between 1420 and the early 16th with _________ or _________ pairs. Then all five items
century. Make a list of Du Fay's works. of the Mass Ordinary calling it a ______. (What is the
100; 6 Masses, 35 other Mass movements; 4 Magnificats, 60 capitalization rule for the Mass/mass?)
hymns and other chant settings, 24 motets (13 Write separate pieces; English; John Dunstable; Leonel
isorhythmic, 11 freely composed), 34 plainchant Power; Gloria-Credo; Sanctus-Agnus Dei; polyphonic
melodies, 60 rondeaux, 8 ballades, 13 other secular mass cycle; Mass for the church service; mass for the
songs. music.

27. (178) List the French and Italian styles in the ballade 35. The practice of writing Mass Ordinary items began in
"Resvellies vous." the ___th century. Grouping? Were they musically
French: aab with refrain (C), melismas, frequent syncopations, related?
some free dissonances 13th; 14th; no
Italian: smooth vocal lines, melisma on the last accented
syllable, meter change for the b section 36. One method of unifying the Mass cycle was the
plainsong mass. What is a plainsong mass?
28. The ballade "Se la face ay pale" has English traits. What Using the appropriate chant for each movement
are they?
Both tenor and cantus have nice melodies, while the CT skips 37. What is a motto mass?
around (like in the French chanson); lots of consonance; Using the same head motive in each movement
free form (rather than aab)
38. What is a cantus-firmus mass? What is its other name?
29. Example 8.5. TQ: What is the "S" in the last measure? Using the same chant in each movement; tenor mass
There's something they don't tell you in school. It's a sign of
congruence, meaning that it's a place where the voices 39. (185) What is a cantus-firmus/imitation mass?
arrive at the same time. It's used in canons so that the When one or more voices are borrowed from a motet, for
voices know how far they are to go before they reach the example.
end.
40. How are masses named? Know the "L'homme armé"
30. (182) Du Fay's motets are mostly for ___ voices with the melody (see below).
melody in the ___ voice. Where is the chant (if there is By the borrowed melody
one)?
3; top; top 41. Early tenor masses were for ___ voices and had the
chant in the _____ voice. Why add a voice below?
3; tenor; the lowest voice can provide a harmonic foundation

42. How did the four voices get their names?

I hope you know the answer to that question and could talk
your way out of a paper bag.

© 2014, 2009, 2006, 2001, 2000 Ted A. DuBois

16

43. (182) Statement: Whew! I read all of the Missa Se la

face ay pale paragraph before he said the "cantus-firmus/
imitation mass" word. Pretty interesting, is it not?

44. (183) SR: The Missa Caput is based on what?

Making it a _____ mass?
The three composers are:
Caput symbolically represents what?
How do we know it's a dragon?
The compositions were for what religious holy day?
What are the two musical symbolisms?
A melisma from an English chant of the word Caput.
(Dunstable), Ockeghem, Obrecht
Jesus crushing the head of Satan (dragon)
Illumination in the Chigi manuscript
Maundy Thursday (Christ washing the feet of his disciples,
last supper)
Cantus firmus down an octave; the tritone of B in the lowest
voice against an F in the top voice

45. (186) Why the cantus-firmus mass then and now?

Then: unifying device; Now: commission for specific occasion

46. What function did it serve?

Music for church and a work of art

47. "An Enduring Musical Language" is a good summary

statement. TQ: Could you write an essay such as this if
you were to discuss chapter 8?

Burkholder/Grout/Palisca, Ninth Edition, Chapter 8

© 2014, 2009, 2006, 2001, 2000 Ted A. DuBois