With the form of music and how it has become very beneficial to our society, “could secular art forms secure a stable place for themselves with the community” (Hertzman, 1940)? This statement from the author allowed me to look further into the history of music theory in the demands of the renaissance. Towards the end of the fifteenth century during the renaissance, there had become a huge increase in demands of qualifications in which certain areas like Europe were pushing for new ways of establishing their demands by law. This can be simplified by the matter in which the printing press had become a success for the entire north and western areas of Europe, but by the time the rise of the sixteenth century came into our world, there became a new form of showing the civic and religious life of what personal expression would bring to the members of the renaissance and that was the new ways in which music was being portrayed. In this presentation, we will present a new form of music theory that became a major factor in the performance of the renaissance and explain how it has impacted the rest of the renaissance in regards to how it was the solo form of the courtly life.
From the early renaissance, the phase of music was still in early stages of sacred tones, which focused more on religious purposes, but all of that changed when a new phase came into play was the use of the chanson, which helped develop a new style of music that this is in regards to secular music. In an article written by Enrich Hertzman, he mentions the use of Chanson and its form of polyphonic helped create a new era of how music can become more than just of religious purposes. In his article, “Trends in the Development of the "Chanson" in the Early Sixteenth Century”, he mentions that chanson is “written in a more declamatory style, with tone repetitions and few melisma’s” (Hertzman, 1940). This was important to make out because as it grew, the development for sacred music began to dwindle and more publishers were wanting to expand the usage of chanson, not only just in Europe, but in other regions of the renaissance. With the help, more people began to see more ideas and creations can be transitioned into music which ultimately expanded more criteria of music development such as motets and masses, became more increasingly developed with the help of chanson.
Chanson plays more than just the lyrics developed by the use of polyphonic singing, it composed a more ideal purpose to help translate the old purposes of which sacred music was portrayed and present in a way common way where more people can be acknowledged and expand more than just one outline of creating music. One of the greatest composers in Hertzman’s article Josquin des Prez had become so influenced by the use of Chanson that he believed it would be beneficial to be used in the teachings of his public school so that the next generation can fully grasp the nature of music in the concept of what was portraying in the renaissance. In regards to how Josquin expanded the use of chanson it showed a positive outlook on the rest of the renaissance because when brings about the usage of wars in criteria’s of creating poems, he concluded that “French poets and scholars had come in closer contact with Italian humanists and had yielded to their influence” (Hertzman, 1940). With this concept, it became clear to understand that chanson was becoming more than just an outline, but more of an influence for new renaissance members to seek and explore new forms of music theories that would eventually lead to new influences that music can be expanded not just on printing presses but on the concept of expansion in producing new religious and catholic forms of performing arts. Chanson ultimately showed that music like sacred does not have to be minimized to only religious criteria’s, but that secular music can be developed in the form of humanism, because ultimately it begins to show that people have more interest in the achievements of how human cultures have developed and expanded throughout the world and also express how their fulfillment through these forms of music theory have made an impact on how we view the world today.
(For more information in regards to understanding the true meaning of what Chanson is, one of the best links that helped me into fully grasping the idea of what it brings to the renaissance).
https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cau108
Work Cited:
Hertzmann, Erich. “Trends in the Development of the ‘Chanson’ in the Early Sixteenth Century.” Papers of the American Musicological Society, [University of California Press, American Musicological Society], 1940, pp. 5–10, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43873083.
Early Music, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages 567–578, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cau108, Published: 08 November 2014
"The Concert" - 1623, created by Gerrit van Honthorst National Gallery of Art, Washington Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Florian Carr Fund, 2013. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art)
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