Deploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem.
While listening to this song, I noticed that it was a motet. Each new line of the text begins a new point of imitation, while the voice that leads, the others imitating the leads as they move around. The upper voice seems more melodic than the tenors and those below the upper voice. You can hear cadences of sorts at the end of each line. In the second part of the song the texture becomes homophonic. Also while listening to this song I also thought it was a song about mourning or death. It just seems like a depressing song. The voices, although, some higher than others, are more or less on lower notes rather than being high pitched. Since the church mode is on D, perhaps that accounts for the lower depressing sounds of the voices.
Flow my Tears by Dowland.
There is some kind of plucking instrument that goes along with the text. I noticed that there are seemingly three phrases of music for the five stanzas of the text. There is also a cadence in the lute part. The voice is monophonic, and seems saddened. I suppose I interpret it being sad not because the title of the song gives it away but because the notes seem to fall rather than rise. I did not really notice a pattern because it does not seem to repeat very much, however the last stanza, stanza 5 does repeat. The music follows a certain scale in a major but then descends toward a minor key. .
