Renaissance Instrumental Music: Categories

Brown

1.  Vocal Music played by instruments

• direct
• intabulation

2.  Settings of pre-existent melodies

• chant, keyboard

3.  Variation sets

• ground basses: passacaglia
• chord progressions-chaconne

4.  Ricercar (early)

• Fantasias-some fantasias have imitative points
• Canzonas

5.  Preludes, Preambles, Toccatas

• idiomatic, solo

6.  dance music:  2-3 movements

• Pavanne
• Galliard

7.  Songs for Lute and Solo Voice

•      Lute Ayres

Grout/Palisca, others

1.  Instrumental Music derived from vocal models

• direct borrowing & recycling
• intabulations:  process & style
• CF settings
• vocal models

a.  (motet)-ricercar (fugue)

• derived: imitative
• 1 mvt nonsectional
• mono-thematic
• several points of imitation

b.  (chanson)-canzona (sonata)

• (Parisian chanson)
• sectional
• contrast textures
• sections grow in number, become mvts.

2.  Variation

• what is varied?
• sectional or continuous

3.  Improvisatory idiomatic works

4.  Dance music