Music 3802 (Ellsworth)
Study Guide #8
Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation

Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter 8
            Skim: 239-248
            Read: 248-256
            Skim: 256-260
            Read: 260-264

Study Questions:

1. What are the principal forms of Anglican church music? To what Roman forms
      do they correspond?--p. 248 What is the difference between a "full" and a
      "verse" anthem?--p. 249

2. What was the purpose of the Council of Trent? What abuses did it deal with?--p.
      249-250

3. What role did Palestrina have in the revision of chant books after the Council of
      Trent?--p. 251

4. What types of works did Palestrina write?--p. 251

5. What are some of the conservative traits of Palestrina’s style?--p. 251-252

6. Be able to describe the mature style of Palestrina, with regard to melodic line,
      harmony, counterpoint, control of dissonance, rhythm, form, text setting, and
      texture--p.252-256 (and NAWM 49)

7. What types of works did Lasso write? How does text govern the formal structure
      in his motets?--p. 260-262 Why can we not speak of a Lasso style?--p. 262

8. What kinds of works did Byrd write? How do his two books of Gradualia differ
      from his earlier motets?--p. 262

9. Be able to summarize the changes that took place between 1450 and 1600 in
      texture, rhythm, melody, and harmony--p. 264