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The main characteristics of Renaissance music are: [1] Music based on modes. Rich texture, with four or more independent melodic parts being performed simultaneously. These interweaving melodic lines, a style called polyphony, is one of the defining features of Renaissance music. Blending, rather than contrasting, melodic lines in the musical ...
This includes the songs of chansonnier, chanson de geste and Grand chant; court songs of the late Renaissance and early Baroque music periods, air de cour; popular songs from the 17th to 19th century, bergerette, brunette, chanson pour boire, pastourelle, and vaudeville; art song of the romantic era, mélodie; and folk music, chanson populaire ...
Son of William Mundy; published a volume of Songs and Psalms in 1594, contributed to the Triumphs of Oriana, composed English and Latin sacred music, and is represented with five pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; his Goe from my window variations are a particularly fine example of the genre Johannes Nucius: c. 1556 – 1620: German
Artistically, the madrigal was the most important form of secular music in Renaissance Italy, and reached its formal and historical zenith in the later-16th century, when the form also was taken up by German and English composers, such as John Wilbye (1574–1638), Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623), and Thomas Morley (1557–1602) of the English ...
The consort song, popular in England, is considered to be closely related to the lute song. This was an earlier strophic form of music that was for a solo voice accompanied by a small group of string instruments. [1] In France, the chanson is a precursor to the lute song or air de cour. Collections of airs de cour were used in other countries ...
The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse. The music which accompanied it appears originally to have been fast or moderately fast but, like many ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, lithograph by Henri-Joseph Hesse. This is a list of compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, sorted by genre.The volume (given in parentheses for motets) refers to the volume of the Breitkopf & Härtel complete edition in which the work can be found.
M. Mass (music) Mensural notation; Miserere (Josquin) Missa ad fugam; Missa Caput; Missa cuiusvis toni; Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin) Missa Di dadi; Missa Gaudeamus