Renaissance english music

Renaissance english music Renaissance = re-birth of classic Greece & Rome in art and literature.

Humanism= the Church should only rule on spiritual matters, & people control their destinies.

Universities: History, Geography, Languages, Poetry.

Guttemberg's Printing Press. Movable types. Books available for everyone! Books are more affordable. Printing of Greek and Roman manuscripts. Standarization of English language!!!

A Renaissance Man: a man with a wide span of interests and abilities: languages, poetry, science, swordmanship, wooing,...

Exploration: America, Newfoundland, …

1517: Luteran Protestant Reformation. Interpretations of the Bible!!! Lutherans, Calvinists,Presbyterians, Anglicans/Puritans,...

Renaissance english music English Royal Family: The Tudors.

Henry VIII: really popular, good looking, ladies' man. 6 wives,

Catherine of Aragon:no male heir → enter Anne Boleyn → divorce.

Schism from Catholic Roman church → he granted his own divorce.

Dissolution of Monasteries.

Catherine of Aragon (daughter: Mary), Anne Boleyn (daughter: Elizabeth I), Jane Seymour (son Edward VII), Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.

Edward VII (protestant)→ Lady Jane Grey (protestant, 9 days!) → Princess Mary (catholic, bloody Mary)→ Elizabeth I (protestant)

Elizabeth I : England settles into protestantism, never married – sole monarch (Virgin Queen), very smart, strong supporter of the Arts.

Elizabethan poetry and drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Elizabethan sonnet.

The Stuarts: James I (king of Scotland, protestant, protector of the Arts.

Renaissance english music

The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. The beginning of the English Renaissance is often taken, as a convenience, to be 1485, when the Battle of Bosworth Field ended the Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the Tudor Dynasty. Renaissance style and ideas, however, were slow in penetrating England, and the Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.

Renaissance english music

English Renaissance music kept in touch with continental developments, and managed to survive the Reformation relatively successfully, though William Byrd and other major figures were Catholic. The Elizabethan madrigal was distinct from, but related to the Italian tradition. Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, and John Dowland were other leading English composers.

The Italian and English Renaissances were similar in sharing a specific musical aesthetic. In the late 16th century Italy was the musical center of Europe, and one of the principal forms which emerged from that singular explosion of musical creativity was the madrigal. In 1588, Nicholas Yonge published a collection of Italian madrigals that had been Anglicized—an event which began a vogue of madrigal in England which was an instantaneous adoption of an idea, from another country, adapted to local aesthetics. English poetry was exactly at the right stage of development for this to occur, since forms such as the sonnet were uniquely adapted to setting as madrigals

Renaissance english music

Renaissance english music

The English Madrigal School was the brief but intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in style, and generally began as either copies or direct translations of Italian models. Most were for three to six voices.

John Dowland[1] (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs

In 1597, Dowland published his First Book of Songs in London. It was one of the most influential and important musical publications of the history of the lute. This collection of lute-songs was set out in a way that allows performance by a soloist with lute accompaniment or various combinations of singers and instrumentalists.

Renaissance english music

'Remember O thou Man', by Thomas Ravenscroft (1582-1635)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ifpTNw29g 'Greensleeves', composed by Henry VIII http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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