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Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...
2 Classical era. 3 Romantic era. 4 Modern/contemporary. 5 References. ... (by year of birth) of American composers of classical music. Baroque. John Tufts (1689–1750)
This is a list of classical music composers by era. With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern. Composers with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras.
Renaissance composers are those individuals who wrote music in the Renaissance era, between 1400 and 1600. Subcategories ...
List of classical music composers by era; List of medieval composers; List of Renaissance composers; List of Baroque composers; List of Classical-era composers; List of Romantic-era composers; List of 20th-century classical composers
The earliest American classical music consists of part-songs used in religious services during Colonial times. The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]
In America, we still have Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Joan Tower, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, William Bolcom, Adolphus Hailstork, La Monte Young and several others — all in ...
5 Composers. 6 Dancing masters. 7 Explorers and navigators. 8 Humanists. 9 Other influential people. ... This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance.