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Period: 1386 to 1466
Donatello
Donatello was a famous Italian artist. -
Period: 1390 to 1453
Composer - John Dunstable
An English composer who influences the musical style in Europe -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Composer - Guillaume Dufay
Dufay was the first Renaissance composer -
Period: 1420 to 1497
Composer Johannes Ockegham
A very respected composer -
Period: 1430 to
Renaissance - Key Points
The Renaissance was an era of exploration, scientific inquiry and artistic awakening. It sometimes regarded as the golden age of a cappella singing. -
Period: 1430 to
Secular Genres
Frottole (usually solo 4 voices and homorhythmic), Chanson (like the frottola but French), Italian Madrigal (originally italian, more serioud poetry and music), -
Period: 1435 to 1511
Composer - Johannes Tinctoris
Tinctoris was a composer and music theorist who wrote the first dictionary of musical terms in 1475 -
Period: 1444 to 1510
Sandro Botticelli
Botticelli was a famous Italian artist, painted The Birth of Venus -
Period: 1450 to 1521
Composer - Josquin des Prez
Was the most revered Renaissance composer and ahead of his time in many ways. His music was emotion filled and popular and others would try to pass of their music as his -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Composer - Heinrich Isaac
Profilic German composer -
Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Da Vinci was one of the most famous artists and engineers of the Renaissance. -
Period: 1475 to 1564
Michaelangelo Buonarroti
Was also a famous Italian artist -
Period: 1490 to 1562
Composer - Adrian Willaert
Father of text expression -
Period: 1505 to
Composer - Thomas Tallis
Tallis was an English composer who wrote a 40-voice part motet called Spem in alium -
Period: 1521 to
Composer - Philipp de Monte
Most prolific composer of the Renaissance -
Period: 1525 to
Composer - Palestrina
Palestrina was the most famous composer from the Renaissance -
Period: 1530 to
The Italian Madrigal
First madrigals were homorhythmic and 4 solo voices, flourished in Italian courts, instruments participated but were rarely noted -
Period: 1532 to
Composer - Orlando di Lasso
Another highly important composer -
Period: 1545 to
Composer - William Byrd
Important Catholic English composer working in Protestant England -
Period: 1548 to
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Carries on Palestrina's style in Spain -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was a very famous writer in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. -
Period: 1567 to
Composer - Claudio Monteverdi
Moved music from Renaissance style to the Baroque style, wrote 9 books of madrigals -
Fair Phyllis
Composed by John Farmer (1570-1603) who was an English composer active in Dublin and London, the piece uses 4 solo voices and word painting