Music History I Renaissance People

Martin Luther

the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation; German priest; Ninety-five Theses; an avid musician/composer

Ramos de Pareja

spanish mathmetician and composer, dismissed Guido, definition of consonance was being questioned

Leonardo da Vinci

an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect

Ottaviano Petrucci

created new music printing business; first collection had des Prez’s work first; (IMSLP guy!!!)

John Dunstable

(1390-1453) astrologian, mathmatician, and musician; from England; Contenance Anglois

Guillaume DuFay

(1397-1474) contenance Anglois; combined old style with new; fauxbourdon

Henricus Issac

a Netherlandish composer of south Netherlandish origin during the Renaissance era. He wrote masses, motets, songs, and instrumental music. (1450-1517)

Marco Cara

active in Mantue; composed frottolas; paired with Barolomeo Tromboncino

Claudin de Sermisy

most prominant Chanson writer

Adrian Willaert

a Flemish composer of High Renaissance music. founder of the Venetian school. transplanted the polyphonic Franco-Flemish style in Italy (1490-1562)

Orlande de Lasso

a composer of the late Renaissance, chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school; one of the leading composers of this later Renaissance (1532 - 1594)

Luca Marenzio

an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance; one of the most renowned composers of madrigals; wrote some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development; wrote around 500

Claudio Monteverdi

an Italian composer, choirmaster, and string player; composer of both secular and sacred music; a pioneer in the development of opear; a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history (1567-1643)

John Wilbye

an English madrigal composer; most famous of all the English madrigalists

John Dowland

an English REnaissance composer, lutenist, and singer; known for his melancholy songs “come, heavy sleep,” “come again,” “Flow my tears,” “I saw my Lady weepe”

Thomas Tallis

an English composer of High Renaissance music; compositions are primarily vocal; occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music; considered on of England’s greatest composers

William Byrd

an English Renaissance composer; one of England’s most important composers of early music; wrote in sacread and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras; among he first major keyboard composers of Europe

Maddalena Casulana

was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the late Renaissance; first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music

Johann Walther

a German Baroque organist, composer, music theorist, and lexicographer; second cousin of J.S. Bach; wrote Musiclaisches Lexicon

Gilles Blinchois

(1400-1460) Contenance Anglois

Antoine Busnois

a French composer, singer, and poet of early Renaissance music; central figure of the early Franco-Flamish School

Heinrich Glarean

wrote treatise Dodecachordon

Johannes Tinctoris

created the first Dictionary of Music; sweetness of the third

Johannes Ockeghem

a bass humself, wrote lower voice parts; wrote masses with multiple CF’s; Clefs can be changed to change mode

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Active in Mantua; composed frottolas; paired with Marco Cara

Michael Praetorius

a German composer, organist, and music theorist; significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns

Jacob Arcadelt

a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music

Cipriano de Rore

a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance; style was experimental, chromatic, and highly expressive; wrote madrigals

Gioseffo Zarlino

an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance; made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as musical tuning

Lorenzo Valla

most famous Renaissance humanist; poet and scholar who translated many Greek historians

Thomas Morley

an English composer, theorist, singer, and organist of late Renaissance; the most famous coposer of secular music in Elizabethan England

Christopher Tye

an English Renaissance composer and organist; 24 polyphinic In nomines; best known for the hymn “Winchester Old”

Andrea Gabrieli

an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance; first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

an Italian composer of late Renaissance music; central representative of the Roman School; considered the leading composer of late 16th century Europe

Carlo Gesualdo

an Italian nobleman and composer; better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until this late 19th century

Juan del Encina

a Spanish composer, poet, priest, and playwright; often credited as the joint-father