unit ii - class 8

Ars Nova vs. Ars Antiqua

Ars Nova: Term coined by Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) to describe the new generically transgressive and musically elaborate work of Machaut and his contemporaries

Musically associated with a new rhythmic impulse and greater contrapuntal complexity

Ars Antiqua: Collaborative term used to describe the older Notre Dame School

Renaissance and Humanism

Renaissance• Celebration of Classical culture

centered in Italy in the 15th century

Humanism• Celebration of personal freedom and

individual experience• Skeptical evaluation of nature and

society from a human-centered point of view

Erasmus

Europe in the 15th Century

Guillaume Dufay

THE MASS

The triumph of the Ordinary:

• Kyrie• Gloria• Credo• Sanctus• Agnus Dei

Josquin Desprez

El Grillo – The Cricket

The cricket is a good singer

Who holds a long note.

Go ahead, drink cricket and sing.

He is not like the other birds,

Who sing a little

And then go elsewhere.

The cricket always stands firm.

When it is hottest

He sings alone for love.