Listen and compare two of the songs from list below- renaissance theme

Compare 2 of your listening assignments from this week’s “To Do List” for similarities and differences. After you have completed your reading assignment, discuss musical texture, harmony, and melody. Do the examples you discuss have a familiar style or different and explain why? Can you hear chords?

Listen: Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (monophonic chant)
o Listen: Perotin: Viderunt omnes (organum)
o Listen: Machaut: Agnus Dei from the “Nostre Dame Mass” (polyphonic mass)
o Listen: Estampie (secular instrumental)
o Listen: Reis glorios (troubadour song)
o Listen: Palestrina: Kyrie from “Pope Marcellus Mass” (imitative polyphonic mass)
o Listen: Weelkes: As Vesta was …Descending (madrigal)
o Listen: Sarabande (Dance)
o Listen: Dowland: Flow My Tears (Lute song)

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