Medieval/Renaissance

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  • Period: 1390 to 1453

    John Dunstable

    English composer who was influenced by European music style and used more 3rds and 6ths in harmonies
  • Period: 1397 to 1474

    Guillaume Dufay

    First Renaissance composer
  • Period: 1420 to 1497

    Johannes Ockeghem

    Very respected and prolific composer who was also a low bass
  • Period: 1430 to

    Renaissance

    During this time, secular music became more widespread and gained popularity. Polyphony was the primary texture and melodies were numerous and simultaneous. Most composers wrote masses, motets, and after 1540, madrigals.
  • Period: 1435 to 1511

    Johannes Tinctoris

    Composer and music theorist who wrote about contemporary music and wrote the first dictionary of musical terms, Diffinitorum musices.
  • 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Invented the printing press
  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin des Prez

    Most admired Renaissance composer especially by Martin Luther
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Highly recognized Italtian artist famously known for his painting of Mona Lisa
  • Period: 1466 to 1525

    Ottaviano Petrucci

    First music printer and publisher who preserved Renaissance music for us today
  • Period: 1483 to 1546

    Martin Luther

    German theologian and composer who was the founder of the Lutheran Church
  • Period: 1490 to 1562

    Adrian Willaert

    Father of text expression
  • 1495

    The Last Supper

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Last Supper
  • Period: 1505 to

    Thomas Tallis

    English composer who wrote a 40-part motet and eventually an 80-part motet
  • 1508

    Sistine Chapel

    Michelangelo begins his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  • Period: 1525 to

    Palestrina

    Most composer from the Renaissance
  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Became an icon of Renaissance music for future generations
  • Period: 1540 to

    William Byrd

    English composer who composed for Catholic and Protestant church
  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare

    Many Renaissance style songs were composed and used in his plays

  • Globe Theatre

    William Shakespeare builds the Globe Theatre where many of his great plays would eventually take place such as Hamlet and Macbeth