![]() ![]() John Farmer was a popular English madrigal composer.Johann Sebastian Bach The birth of classical musicįixing a date for ‘the beginning of classical music’ is as elusive as pin-pointing the millennium in which dinosaurs became extinct. Monteverdi is also known as the transitional figure to the Baroque music era. Known composers were Luca Marenzio, Carlo Gesualdo, and Claudio Monteverdi. The last period of madrigals was highlighted by two reforms, madrigals would take on a lighter tone incorporating more whimsy, and madrigals once a small, intimate performance, would be concertized. The lifetime of John Dowland, known for his lute music in Europe and composed beautiful melancholic music. The lifetime of Giovanni Gabrielli, known composer in Venetian high Renaissance music who wrote instrumental and church music. The lifetime of William Byrd, leading English composer of the late Renaissance who composed church, secular, consort and keyboard music. The lifetime of Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer during the Renaissance who composed mainly sacred music. Composer Orlando Lassus left Italy and brought the madrigal form to Munich. Philippe de Monte was perhaps the most prolific of all madrigal composers. In the 1550s, thousands of madrigals were composed in Italy. The Council of Trent met from 1545 to 1563 to discuss complaints against the church including its music. During this period Renaissance polyphony reached its height.Ĭatholic Counter-Reformation. The lifetime of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, known as the high Renaissance composer of Counter-Reformation sacred music. It was also the period when the Psalms of the Bible were translated into French and then set to music.Ĭomposers Adrian Willaert and Jacob Arcadelt were among those who developed the earliest Italian madrigals. Significant changes occurred to church music such as the introduction of a chorale. ![]() Protestant Reformation sparked by Martin Luther. Known composers during this period were Clément Janequin and Claudin de Sermisy. Known composers during this period were Johannes Ockeghem, Jacob Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez.Įxperimentation with French chansons. One of his compositions, "Nuper Rosarum Flores" was written for the consecration of Florence's great cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore (Il Duomo) in 1436.ĭuring this period composers experimented with cantus firmus. He is known for his church music and secular songs. The lifetime of Guillaume Dufay, a French and Flemish composer, popular as a leading composer of the early Renaissance. ![]()
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