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Leading English Composer for what became the Renaissance style
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Franco-Flemish; the first important Renaissance composer; used older medieval cadences
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Early Renaissance composer, often paired with Dufay in importance; Court of the Duke of Burgundy(Philip the Good); Franco- Flemish
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Bass singer; served 3 Kings; well respected
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His chansons represent a transition to a new Renaissance secular polyphony; known along with Ockeghem
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Franco-Flemish theorist, singer, composer, instrumentalist
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Franco-Flemish composer, singer; worked in France and Italy; one of the earliest composers to use imitation prominently
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Franco-Flemish; worked in France and Italy; his music was widely distributed
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Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I in Vienna; served in Florence as well
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Considered by Martin Lusher to be the best of the composers of their time; French
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Leading composer at the Burgundian court; never worked in Italy; very famous during his time; frequent use of canon and ostinato
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Made important contributions to large-scale forms and their unity; important composer of masses in Europe; Dutch
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Franco-Flemish; worked in France and Italy; prominently published in his day and praised by numerous contemporaries
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Italian composer and singer in Mantua; raised the frottla to a level of sophistication
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First music printer and publisher; preserved Renaissance music for us today
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Italian composer at Mantua, Vicenza (where he murdered his wife and her lover), Ferrara, and Florence; important frottola composer
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French; worked in Italian cities, important pioneer for madrigals; early madrigals were often homorhythmic in style
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German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran Church
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Italian composer; studied with mouton in Paris; worked in Rome; wrote litanies for double chorus
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French; served the King of France; master of the French chanson; wrote famous programmatic chansons (battles, birds, and chases)
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Swiss German composer and singer Catholic, but admired Luther; master of quodlibets
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English; organist and choirmaster; influenced by the Lutheran faith wrote for the Catholic liturgy; and important English composer in the first half of the 16th century
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French composer and singer; widely published in his day; many composers transcribed his music in his day
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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
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German Meistersinger; wrote thousands of songs
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French music printer and publisher; used movable type and a single impression
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From Flanders; worked in the Spanish court; master of counterpoint; leading figure between Joaquin and Palestrina
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Protestant; German cantor, poet and composer; collaborated with Luther to create music for the German reformed services
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Spanish composer and singer; especially popular after his death
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English organist; taught Byrd; he was Catholic during Henry VIII's troubled years; wrote both for the Latin and the reformed English liturgies
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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
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Dutch; also known as Clemens non Papa (indicating, "not the Pope"); worked in Spain for Charles V; prolific composer
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Italian composer and theorist; advocated half steps (chromatic) and quarter-tones (microtonal); theorist and composer; built a harpsichord with 36 keys per octave; innovator in tuning systems
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Flemish; worked in Ferrara and Parma; associated with Willaert
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Important Italian theorist of counterpoint; composer; wrote Le istitutioni harmoniche in 1558 which helped establish the field of counterpoint
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Italian composer, Palestrina's predecessor in Rome, helped to establish the Roman style
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French publisher, printer, composer, lutenist, author; ran the firm LeRoy and Ballard; author of pedagogical books for plucked strings
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At the Vienese and Prague courts; religious; Franco-Flemish; mixed polyphony and homophony; one of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance
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Became an icon of the 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
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late 1520's;Italian composer, theorist, lutenist; father of Galileo Galilei, the astronomer; studied with Zarlino; champion of Greek music and member of the Florentine Camerata
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Spanish composer; student of Morales; second only to Victoria in Spain
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Pupil of Willaert; teacher of Viadana; tried to please the Council of Trent
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Parisian intellectual; respected by Kings; dedicated to the reform of music and poetry mystique measuree a l'antique; wrote 43 Huguenot psalms; one of the most significant composers of the second half of the 16th century
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French composer; used much chromaticism and some microtones; published 3 books of secular polyphony
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Italian organist, composer, teacher; uncle of Giovanni; worked in Venice; pupil of Willaert; versatile and innovative
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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
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Leader of the Florentine Camerata in the late 1570s-90s; Italian critic, poet, composer, and playwright
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Italian composer who helped establish the Roman style; important madrigalist and composer of sacred music in North Italy; teacher of Monteverdi
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Pupil of de Rore; served the Dukes of Mantua and Parma; stormy personal life; text declamation was important to him; he influenced Monteverdi; friend of the poet, Tasso; wrote madrigals for the Concerto della donne
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Italian lutenist and composer at Florentine Court; wrote one motet for 40 instrumental voices; a leading composer of madrigals and stage music
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Italian poet and dramatist; his poetry was set by many Baroque composers; he created the pastoral vogue that lasted into the 18th century
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English; Catholic composer writing both Protestant and Catholic music in England; greatest English composer of his time
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Italian composer who helped carry on the tradition of Palestrina's Roman style; pupil of Palestrina; in 1580 started a music school with his brother
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Italian poet and playwright; his works have been flavored by composers for centuries
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Italian composer; pupil of de Rore; Frescohaldi's teacher; wrote 8 books of madrigals one with written-out keyboard accompaniment; wrote madrigals for the Concerto delle donne
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Spanish; continued Palestrina's Roman style in Spain; studied in Rome sacred-music composer; the greatest Spanish composer in the Renaissance
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Italian composer; he is remembered as a pioneer of dramatic music in the 16th century; important pioneer in the genre of madrigal comedy
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The leading madrigal composer of the late 16th century ; worked in Rome, Ferrara, Florence, and Warsaw (serving the King of Poland); influenced the English madrigal
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Famous for his 2 sets of ballet (strophic vocal dance-songs with passages of nonsense syllables); influenced the English
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German music theorist, composer, teacher, and astronomer
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English; contributed to the development of the English madrigal; important for music publication and printing; probably a pupil off Byrd; wrote in 1597, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
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French composer and singer; one of the composers credited with writing the first ballet, Ballet comique de la Reine in 1581 with Salmon
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Italian composer and teacher who helped carry on the Roman style of Palestrina; one of the first Roman composers to use basso continuo; brother of Giovanni Maria
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Known for his chromaticism; Neapolitan Prince of Venosa; murdered his wife and lover in 1590; leading composer of madrigals; extreme expressive intensity; Stravinisky was fascinated with his music; friends with the poet Tasso
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Organist in Amsterdam; teacher; helped to lay the foundations of German organ music
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English composer, poet, and doctor
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Ahead of his time; took music into a new style (seconda practica vs. the older, prima practice)
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Italian composer; worked at the Vatican and Ferrara; from a musical family, perhaps nephew of Agostino Agostini
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English composer, lutenist, and viol player; served the Prince of Wales
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French composer and singer; one of the people credited with writing the first ballet, Ballet comique de la Reine in 1581 with composer , Beaulieu