The song that I picked from the Renaissance era is Fair Phyllis which is also called Fair Phyllis I saw which was composed by John Farmer on 1599. Born in England 1570, Farmer was a composer and beforehand worked as an organist in the Renaissance era and his music advanced and had a huge impact on the development of English madrigal separating it from its Italian legacy. He later published one book of Marginals and during his career, his work made an extraordinary achievement including this piece Fair Phyllis attributable to its stunning verses and amazingly satisfying music. Fair Phyllis portrays the tale of Amyntas, a shepherd searching for his lover Phyllis who was feeding her flock close to the mountain. He doesn't know where she went, the shepherds don't know as well, however, …show more content…
The marginal is entertaining, light-hearted and has a happy ending. Fair Phyllis has 6-line poem in the form of English Marginal. Fair Phyllis is sung in a cappella with four voices (SATB) starting with the Soprano who hits the highest note followed by Alto, Tenor, and Bass which are a mix of men and women voices. The soprano begins with “Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone” which is then repeated after “Feeding her flock near to the mountain side.” The overall form of this piece is secular and is comprised of short repeated segments and the compositional is imitation with each part beginning with the soprano's voice followed by each voice ending with the bass. Throughout the song, the voices are rising with imitative lines repeating the words, "Here and there he meandered." The song has differentiating meters switching from triple to duple meter. What also makes this piece great to listen to is the changing of textures. With various textures beginning with monophonic texture which is the
The informal language and intimacy of the poem are two techniques the poet uses to convey his message to his audience. He speaks openly and simply, as if he is talking to a close friend. The language is full of slang, two-word sentences, and rambling thoughts; all of which are aspects of conversations between two people who know each other well. The fact that none of the lines ryhme adds to the idea of an ordinary conversation, because most people do not speak in verse. The tone of the poem is rambling and gives the impression that the speaker is thinking and jumping from one thought to the next very quickly.
There are several themes in the story Dicey?s Song by Cynthia Voigt. Some examples of them are the attraction of the unusual, the connection between reaching out and receiving, letting go by holding on and holding on by letting go, which all play an important role in this novel.
Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998.
...fair haired son, my shame, my pride” We are told she has a son, and that not only is it a memory of her shame but he is her pride. He’s all she has. Then the last three lines on stanza six are switched. The narrator is now talking to her son, her pride. “Your father would give lands for one” she is telling her son that if his father really wanted to, he would take him and would leave her (the narrator) with nothing.
From the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance, there was a movement from vocal music to a combination of vocal and instrumental music (Brown, 1976). There are seven categories of instrumental music: 1) vocal music played by instruments, 2) settings of pre-existing melodies, 3) variation sets, 4) ricercars, fantasias, and canzonas, 5) preludes, preambles, and toccatas for solo instruments, 6) dance music, and 7) songs composed specifically for lute and solo voice (Brown, 1976). Italy dominated the stage for instrumental music at this time, and it was not until the last decades of the sixteenth century that English instrumental music became popular (Brow...
The first literary device that can be found throughout the poem is couplet, which is when two lines in a stanza rhyme successfully. For instance, lines 1-2 state, “At midnight, in the month of June / I stand beneath the mystic moon.” This is evidence that couplet is being used as both June and moon rhyme, which can suggest that these details are important, thus leading the reader to become aware of the speaker’s thoughts and actions. Another example of this device can be found in lines 16-17, “All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies / (Her casement open to the skies).” These lines not only successfully rhyme, but they also describe a woman who
form of the poem to convey a message to the reader occurs on line four as she
The poem is divided into 2 Stanza's with 3 lines each. And there are an
'A Red, Red Rose' is written in four four-line stanzas, or quatrains, consisting of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines. This means that the first and third lines of each stanza have four stressed syllables, or beats, while the second and fourth lines have three stressed syllables. Quatrains written in this manner are called ballad stanzas.
In relation to structure and style, the poem contains six stanzas of varying lengths. The first, second, and fourth stanzas
This is a long one-stanza narrative poem. All the lines have five stresses and are written in iambic pentameter or blank verse, which was also Shakespeare's chosen meter in his plays.
Stapleton-Corcoran, Erin. "Music, Romantic: After 1850." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. London: Routledge, 2003. Credo Reference. Web. 18 April 2014.
The construction of the poem is in regular four-line stanzas, of which the first two stanzas provide the exposition, setting the scene; the next three stanzas encompass the major action; and the final two stanzas present the poet's reflection on the meaning of her experience.
Heritage of Music: Volume II The Romantic Era (Heritage of Music). New York: Oxford UP, USA, 1992. Print.
Through the poem, there is an exact rhyme such as on lines 1,3,2,4 “spent” and “bent”, “wide” and hide” with the last word of the line. The end rhymes of the fourteen lines create an ABBA ABBA CDE CDE pattern that would be consistent with