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Franco-Flemish; the first important Renaissance composer; used older medieval cadences; (also spelled Dufay)
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Bass singer; served 3 Kings; very respected; did not use much imitation; born in Northeastern France; important teacher
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Air, Allemande, Anthem, Ballade, Ballet, Branle, Canzona, Chanson, Chorale, Fauxbordon, Frottola, Galliard (gagliarda), German Polyphonic Lieder, Hymn, Incidental Music, Intermedio, Lied, Lute song, Madrigal (the Renaissance type), Madrigal comedy, March, Masque, Mass, Motet, Partita, Passion, Pavane (pavana), Prelude, Quodlibet, Requiem, Ricercar (ricercare, plural), Toccata, Verset, Villancico
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Considered by Martin Luther to be the "best composer of our time" and "the master of the notes;" he was said to have had no peer in music; French
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Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music; court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in Vienna; served in Florence
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Leading composer at the Burgundian court; never worked in Italy; very famous in his day; frequent use of canon and ostinato preferred low sonorities
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Made important contributions to large-scale forms and their unity; Dutch; important composer in the masses in Europe
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First music printer and publisher; preserved Renaissance music for us today
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German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran church
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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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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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Flemish; worked in Ferrara and Parma; associated with Willaert
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At the Viennese 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 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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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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Italian organist, composer, teacher; uncle of Giovanni; worked in Venice; pupil of Willaert; versatile and innovative
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Leader of the Florentine Camerata in the late 1570s-90s; Italian critic, poet, composer, and playwright
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Pupil of Rore;s served the Dukes Manuta and Parma; Stormy personal life; text declamation was important to him; he influenced Monteverdi; friend of the poet Tasso; madrigals of the Concerto dellla donne
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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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Spanish; continued Palestrina's Roman style in Spain; studied in Rome; sacred-music composer; the greatest composer in the Renaissance
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