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2. The Burgundian School a. characteristics of the music - 3-voice polyphony - melodic and rhythmic interest centers on upper voice - interval of a 3rd becomes dominant in melodies b. principal composers - Guillaume Dufay - Gilles Binchois - John Dunstable 3. The Flemish School a. characteristics of the music - 4-voice polyphony - bass part added - gives lower register to the music - use of authentic (V-I) and plagal (IV-I) cadences b. principal composers - Jean Ockeghem - Jacob Obrecht - Pierre de la Rue 4. 15th C. forms - sacred polyphony was more important in the period than secular polyphony a. sacred forms - the two principal sacred forms were the Mass and the motet. - the Mass: polyphonic settings for the Mass became popular and became a major part of polyphonic literature in the 15th and 16th C. The texts were still in Latin. - the motet: sacred polyphonic composition composed to a Latin text (usually Biblical) - used in the Proper of the service - uses more imitation than the Mass. b. secular forms - developments lagged behind sacred music forms - new secular forms were developed in France, Italy and Germany. -French secular forms - the French chanson is characterized by its lively dance rhythm and is either polyphonic or homophonic (melody and accompaniment) -Italian secular forms - the villota, canzonetta and balletto were derived from dances. -German secular forms - the polyphonic lied were polyphonic settings of German folk songs developed late in the 15th C. |