Music of the Reformation Era
Sacred Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Divine Offices
- The (Ordinary) Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
- Motets (polyphonic composition on a sacred Latin text)
- Hymns and other compositions
- Sanctus from Missa cum jubilo (12th century) Voices of Ascension #10
- Sanctus from Missa prolationem by Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517) Voices of Ascension #4
- Credo from Missa arme sexti toni by Josquin des Pres (1450-1521) Josquin #9
- Gloria from Western Wind Mass by John Taverner (1490-1545), John Terverner #1 and 2
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Sacred Music of the Reformation
Protestant Reformation
- Whole congregation participates
- Simple so that words are clear
- Vernacular
- German Mass (Lutheran)
- "Chorals"
- originally consisting of only two elements, a text and a tune; much of Lutheran music an outgrowth of chorales
- Psalters
- rhymed metrical translations of the Book of Psalms, set to melodies either newly composed or of popular origins
- the principal musical production in Reformed churches
- Anthems
- corresponds to the Latin motet in Anglican services
- Kyrie, German Mass 1526 Martin Luther #1
- Ein feste burg ist unser Gott, Martin Luther #8
- Erhault un, Herr, bei deinem Wort, Martin Luther #9
Catholic Reformation
- simplification of counterpoint, clarity of text, more frequent use of homophony
- Gloria, Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina (1525-1594), Prince of Music #2
- Dum complerentur by Palestrina (1525-1594), Prince of Music #9
Forty Voices
- Ecce beatam lucem by Alessandro Striggio, Utopia Triumphans #7
- Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis, Utopia Triumphans #1
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