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