General Characteristics of
2nd Generation Franco-Flemish Compositional Style
- appropriated entire substance
of polyphonic model, rather than single melody as CF
- elaborates borrowed composition
by taking phrases, motives, rhythms, chords, chord progressions, subjecting
them to free variation
- sometimes uses pre-existing
polyphony with little changes; sometimes re-composes material, giving emphasis
to motives hardly touched in original, ignoring or underplaying motives previously
given greater prominence; reverses or changes order of themes, uses them
in new context
- melodic intervals filled
in with scalar material
- certain conventions about
use of borrowed material in overall construction of Masses arose
- Masses take up motives in
order they were originally presented more often than not
- beginning of model usually
opens each major division of a parody Mass: point of imitation
- first section of secunda
pars of a model begins important subdivisions of a parody Mass
- final cadence of model often
concludes each movement of Mass cycle
- all motives with which composer
chose to work appear in Kyrie movement: thematic repository for rest of Mass
- occasionally composer reworked
musical material originally identified with words that are related in one
way or another to that particular passage of Mass text, creating literary
as well as musical association between Mass and model
- parody technique grew out
of earlier tradition of bringing in material from other voices from which
CF was taken
- melodies built out of motives
- parody technique depended
on method of simultaneous, rather than successive composition, as well as
new practice of constructing music from interlocked phrases in which each
individual voice need not be a self-contained linear entity
- worked with all strands of
polyphonic complex at once to creaound, not well articulated formally but
unified by technique of imte equal independent melodic lines, which could
drop in and out of texture at will
- parody techniques considered
more flexible
- parody technique applied
to all genres as well