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Period: 1397 to 1474
Guillaume Du Fay
Franco-Flemish; the first important Renaissance composer; used older medieval cadences; (also spelled Dufay) -
Period: 1410 to 1497
Johannes Ockeghem
Bass singer; served 3 Kings; very respected; did not use much imitation; born in Northeastern France; important teacher -
1430
Genre of The Renaissance
Air, Allemande, Anthem, Ballade, Ballet, Branle, Canzona, Chanson, Chorale, Fauxbordon, Frottola, Galliard (gagliarda), German Polyphonic Lieder, Hymn, Incidental Music, Intermedio, Lied, Lute song, Madrigal (the Renaissance type), Madrigal comedy, March, Masque, Mass, Motet, Partita, Passion, Pavane (pavana), Prelude, Quodlibet, Requiem, Ricercar (ricercare, plural), Toccata, Verset, Villancico -
Period: 1450 to 1521
Josquin des Prez
Considered by Martin Luther to be the "best composer of our time" and "the master of the notes;" he was said to have had no peer in music; French -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Heinrich Isaac
Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music; court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in Vienna; served in Florence -
Period: 1452 to 1518
Pierre de la Rue
Leading composer at the Burgundian court; never worked in Italy; very famous in his day; frequent use of canon and ostinato preferred low sonorities -
1454
Johannes Gutenberg's bible is published
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Period: 1457 to 1505
Jacob Orbecht
Made important contributions to large-scale forms and their unity; Dutch; important composer in the masses in Europe -
Period: 1466 to 1539
Ottiviano Petrucci
First music printer and publisher; preserved Renaissance music for us today -
Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran church -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Adrian Willaert
Complex, continuous polyphony; strong advocate of textual expression; studied with Jean Mouton; served in Italian courts; extraordinary teacher; worked in Venice at St. Marks Cathedral -
1504
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni finishes "David"
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Period: 1505 to
Thomas Tallis
English organist; taught Byrd; he was Catholic during Henry VIII's troubled years; wrote both for the Latin and the reformed English liturgies -
Period: 1507 to 1568
Jacques Arcadelt
Dutch; worked in Rome and Paris; famous for his early madrigals and his 3 to 7-voice masses (often homorhythmic style); well published in the 16th century -
Period: 1515 to 1565
Cipriano de Rore
Flemish; worked in Ferrara and Parma; associated with Willaert -
Period: 1521 to
Phillipe de Monte
At the Viennese and Prague courts; religious; Franco-Flemish; mixed polyphony and homophony; one of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance -
Period: 1525 to
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
Became an icon of Renaissance music for future generations; Roman style; responded to the requests of the Council of Trent to reform Catholic church music; mostly contrapuntal liturgical music -
Period: 1532 to
Orlando di Lasso
Also Roland de Lassus; widely traveled; employed G. Gabrieli in 1575; over 2000 compositions in all languages; one of the most versatile and prolic composers in the 16th century -
Period: 1532 to
Andrea Gabrieli
Italian organist, composer, teacher; uncle of Giovanni; worked in Venice; pupil of Willaert; versatile and innovative -
Period: 1534 to
Count Giovanni Bardi
Leader of the Florentine Camerata in the late 1570s-90s; Italian critic, poet, composer, and playwright -
Period: 1535 to
Giaches de Wert
Pupil of Rore;s served the Dukes Manuta and Parma; Stormy personal life; text declamation was important to him; he influenced Monteverdi; friend of the poet Tasso; madrigals of the Concerto dellla donne -
Period: 1540 to
William Byrd
English; Catholic composer writing both Protestant and Catholic music in England; greatest English composer of his time -
Period: 1548 to
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Spanish; continued Palestrina's Roman style in Spain; studied in Rome; sacred-music composer; the greatest composer in the Renaissance -
1570
First Modern Atlas is Published