1.8- Italian Renaissance Glossary

ART

Charoscuro https://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/s-chiaro.htmlmore wonderful examples

Continuous Narration or Narrative https://www.spencerart.ku.edu/resources/narrative/cassone.shtml

Sfumato https://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/s_sfumato.htm

Foreshortening https://drawinglab.evansville.edu/foreshortening.html

Atmospheric Perspective https://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/ap-aerial.html

Linear Perspective https://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/lp-intro.html

Fresco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco

Tempra https://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/study/g_tempera.html

Oil painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_painting

Music

A capella vocal work without accompaniment
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2zYal_yZk

Motet https://incompetech.com/music/motet.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5xa6myHcE

Chanson https://www.answers.com/topic/chanson
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuP5sBPrK5A

Mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_(music)

Word Painting https://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/textw/Wordpainting.html

Polyphony A harmonic texture where one or more melody is being played or sung simultaneously.

Listen to Bach’s Fugue in G minor, a Baroque era composition. This is a pristine example of polyphony which starts out with a single melody and includes a graphic that shows how it weaves in more melodies until there are 5 melodies at time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVadl4ocX0M

Monophonic A single melody line. This is the opposite of polyphony. You can even have many people, and even instruments doing the same melody line at the same time and it is monophonic. Listen to the first minute and half of Agnus Dei from Verdi’s Requiem for an example of monophonic harmonic texture. After the first minute and a half it goes into homophonic texture.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6b6aeYCFcU

Sacred music Music created for religious purposes, frequently with text taken from religious writings.

Theatre

Commedia dell’arte https://www.answers.com/topic/commedia-dell-arte

Farce https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/farce

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