Professional Documents
Culture Documents
? - 1600
• Lyre
• Sackbut
• Hurdy gurdy
Consort
• A group of instruments all from the same
family playing together.
Modes
– Sung a capella
– Polyphonic texture
– Written for chorus
Anthem
– Through-composed
– Performed a capella
– Imitation
– Polyphonic texture
– Word painting
Word Painting
• Slow
• Stately
• 2 beats in the bar
Galliard
• Quick
• Lively
• 3 beats in the bar