Instrumental Music in the Renaissance

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (c1490-1510)

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Main Genres of Instrumental Music

• Transcriptions based on vocal models• Settings of chant melodies for the liturgy• Sets of variations• Ricercars• Canzonas• Preludes, toccatas and similar improvisatory

styles• Dance

Keyboard and other arrangements of French ChansonClaudin de Sermisy– Jatens secours (from Attaignant’s Vingt et cinq chansons of 1531): original chanson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nGe7uSu3qQ

Claudio Merulo (d. 1604)– Susanne un jour (based on the Lassus chanson) 1611 Josquin, Mille regretz, and played instrumentally

Variations

Luys de Narváez (1538) – Cuatro diferencias sobre Guárdame las vacas (Anthology 71); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1RVRatBA94 Silvestro di Ganassi (1492–1550) from Opera intitulata Fontegara (1535); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnU0SVdypoM

Improvisatory (Ricercar)

Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543) Fantasia (1548) (Anthology 73); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtPZLF0zAo8

Ricercare

Julio Segni da Modena (1498–1561) – Ricercar from Musica Nova (1540) (Anthology 74); here is another one from the same collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpQ8yHj-XN8 Girolamo Cavazzoni (son of Marco Antonio) – Ricercar; here is “Recercare primo”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Qt0h8aaAU

ClavichordGirolamo Cavazzoni – instrumental version of Josquin’s Faulte d’argent (Anthology 50); on clavichord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnqRggY75_c

Canzona

Vincenzo Pellegrini (c. 1560–1631/32) – Canzon detta la Serpentina (Anthology 75); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m_G_G0Yjv0

Toccata

Claudio Merulo – Toccata from volume two (1604) (Anthology 76); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUR6kW-Gfh0

DancePavan and Galliard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZrT4fMgFk