"Dufay and Binchois", 1) What does Dufay use to unify the Missa Se la fac ay pale? Missa Se la face ay pale, composed about 1450 was the first of Dufay's Masses to be based on a secular tenor. He used a cantus firmus from his own three-voiced ballade of the same name where it is used similarly. The mass is bound together in all five movements by the cantus firmus in its varied forms of integer valor (normal time values), dimunution, or augementation. The systematic usage of the tenor creates form and order and establishes a pattern.
2)"Dufay was an Apollinian composer, not a Dionysian one" is obviously a metaphorical statement. What does it mean? Who are these names with whom he is being compared? What does this mean with regards to the composition of Missa Se la fac ay pale? This statement applies to the characteristics placed on individual composition styles that attempt to organize their creative process through analysis of the diametrically opposing views of the gods Apollo and Dionysus. Apollo was the god of peace, intellectual contemplation and logical order, and Dionysus was the god of wine and an orgiastic religion based on the power and fertility of nature. Dufay is considered an Apollinian composer because " in his music the words usually play a subservient role". The Missa Se la fac ay pale is a monument to rationality and order where cadences appear on downbeats and dissonance take into account the weak and strong beats.
3) What ideas from isorhythmic motets did Dufay use in his later Mass compositions? What was one important difference, and what were the lasting effects from this difference? The ideas that Dufay used from isorthymic motets were the repetition of cantus firmus and the texture of the motets. The difference was that he created a real harmonic bass by keeping the second countra tenor or bassus below the cantus firmus. Because of the freedom to choose which chords were to be used above the bassus instead of the cantus firmus, Dufay was able to promote the development of four-part texture.
In May of 1445 he finally received some money for his music and performance. ... When he attended a reunion he met his famous Binchois. ... Most of Dufay's music was church music performed in many cathedrals. ... He also wrote 70 secular music pieces. ... His music was very interesting to listen to, for his styles were the same for some songs, but also different. ...
During this time, Dufay learned the techniques of composition from performing and copying music. Like many other composers of his day, Dufay moved to Italy early in his career because it was the big place for music during this time. ... Dufay was an important figure in ushering in the new creative age, the Renaissance, and has become widely recognized for his role in the development of Western music. ... Though at that time Dufay had a "bad reputation for writing the music of masses with secular airs as Canti fermi"(Stainer). ... Dufay understood that good music was just good music and a g...
Typically these Medieval pieces, when fellow music academics and composers analyzed them, were recognized for their complicated structure relating to melodic and rhythmic motives, color and talea. ... Since the text rules the form of the music and because of the sheer complexity of the music, it is considered a Medieval chanson. In what seems to be a gallant effort toward simplicity, Gilles Binchois sets the poem, Dueil Angoisseus, to music. In this chanson, Binchois uses the music and text to encourage expression. ... From old, Medieval music to new, Renaissance music, we see a transformati...
Music from the Renaissance and Baroque period in many ways reflect the mentality and setting of their times, each birthed upon the evolution and changes of profound ideas that became signature motifs of their place in history. ... Along with Dunstable in the list of important composers are Binchois (1400-1460) and Du Fay (1397-1474). ... Like Dunstable, Binchois also experimented with rhythm and used dotted figures and syncopation. ... Together their music was widely distributed in the forms of chansons, motets, and masses. ... Their music was valued highly by their predecessors such as Joqsui...
Music in it's most superior form could not be heard. ... A preference for sacred vocal music was developed and pagan secular music and instruments were rejected. ... Prior to around the year 1000 AD, virtually all music, Western music included, consisted of one dominant, unaccompanied melody line. ... Even though modern scholars are revising their opinions of culture in the Medieval times upward, the average peasant simply couldn't read or write. ... And of course, the monks whose duty it was to notate and copy music would have a tremendous bias toward the sacred music. ...
For example, when one watches videos of rap music, he mostly sees low rider cars, gamblers, singers" personal history reflected in the video and their lifestyle. ... Their fans are influenced by them just like a drug addict. ... There are no cute and sexy singers in the art of instrumental music that the listeners would want to be like or hang their pictures in their bedrooms. ... Their music has been around for centuries and got into the souls of millions of people. ... Their age makes them special; their "wrinkles" make it sound sweeter. ...
This Renaissance revival of Greek and Roman studies emphasized the value of the classics for their own sake, rather than for their bearing to Christianity. ... Consequently, the painted surface was regarded as a window on the natural world, and it became the task of painters to portray this world in their art. ... Attention to the musical tastes of secular society also affected sacred music. ... The most versatile early Renaissance composer was Guillaume Dufay. ... Or in music, which was viewed as enriching the physical world and where music was more simple. ...
Polyphony originated in the halls of the Catholic Church as plainchant, or Gregorian chant. Plainchant involved simple unaccompanied chanting without any established rhythm in either medieval major or minor mode. Around 900 CE, the earliest type of polyphony started appearing as organum, in which...
We can't touch music, but music touches us. ... Eminent musicians across the world in ancient times have not only entertained the rulers of their times, but have also invented new musical instruments and also improvised those present then. ... It has been found out that early musical training in children help to develop their brains faster, especially in areas of language and reasoning. ... Thus it enhances their creativity and analyzing skills. ... It effects human emotions, human behavior and character, their physic and career. ...
