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Period: 476 to 1429
Medieval Period
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Period: 476 to 1429
harmony
not much harmonic structure besides the favored:4ths,5ths, and 8ths. seconds and sevenths were also popular -
Period: 476 to 1429
Melody
very conjunct and generally stays within a 6th or octyave. uses maioly the 8 church modes: dorian, hypodorian, phrygian, hypophrygian, lydian, hypolydian, mixolidian, hypomixolydian. Melismas!!!!!!!! -
Period: 991 to 1033
Guido of Arezzo
Music Theorist. credited for creating a system of precise pitch notation with the lines and spaces on a staff. he advocated a method of sight singing using syllables(ut, re, mi, fa, so, la).the earkiest and best treatise composition of chant and polyphony was called Micrologus -
Period: 1098 to 1179
Hildegard von Bingen
composer of the first morality play; Known as the Sybil of the Rhine; writer, composer, and theologen; she was highly sought after -
Period: 1130 to 1200
Bernart de Ventadorn
Famouse and possibly the best of the troubadour poets, more of his music survives the 12th century than most. -
Period: 1135 to 1201
Leonin
master organum purum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris -
Period: 1160 to 1212
Comtessa Beatriz
Famous femal Troubador that left us the only surviving melody by a female troubadour. her birthdate is not know. -
Period: 1170 to 1230
Walther von der Vogelweide
minnesinger and poet; who worked in the vennese court and wrote his earliest survuving minnesinger melody; considder the leading minnesinger composer by his contemporaries -
Period: 1180 to 1238
Perotin
Master of descant organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame and a supposed student of Leonin. he wrote 3 and4-voice organum and his identity is speculative -
Period: 1213 to 1239
Moniot d'Arras
Trouvere that wrote several genres and forms and a monk at Arras;23 poems and 13 melodies surviving -
Period: 1245 to 1288
Adam de ka Halle
One of the last trouveres and wrote polyphony aswell as studied in paris. wrote chansons, musical plays, rondeaux, and 7 motets -
Period: 1291 to 1361
Phillip de Vitry
French composer Known as the "inventor of new art", theorist, poet, and bishop that established the new
tradition of mensural notations -
Period: 1300 to 1377
Guuillaume de Machaut
leading poet and composer of the Ars Nova and his importance and innovations are extraordinary; has written over 400 poems, 23 motets,19 lais, 42 ballades, 33 virelais, and 22 rondeaux -
Period: 1325 to 1397
Francesco Landini
Know for his cadences and virtuosity on organ, all while being blind by early age. he is most celebrrated musical personality of the trecento , and an instrument maker. he has written 155 works, mostly ballate and madrigals -
Period: 1390 to 1453
John Dunstaple
was the leading English composer that created new consonant style of thirds and sixths that became the renaissance style. had many works destroyed during English reformation -
Period: 1397 to 1474
Guillaume Du Fay
the first important renaissance composer ; used medieval cadences. wrote 7 masses,28 mass sections, 90 motets, 15 antiphons, 27 hymns, 87 chansons, 22 motets, and 13 isorythmic -
Period: 1410 to 1497
Johannes Ockeghem
Bass singer, served 3 kings, and was well respected. did not use imitation. Important teacher. -
Period: 1430 to
The Renaissance
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Period: 1430 to
melody
flowing with melismatic nature and uses of wider leaps for textual expression more conjunct than disjunct. top line often had melody -
Period: 1430 to
harmony
progressions began focussing of thirds and sixths, full triands appeared but were not studied. counterpoint became huge during this time and homorythm aswell -
Period: 1450 to 1521
Josquin des Prez
considered by martin luther to be the best composer of his time and the master of the notes. he was said to have no musical peer -
Period: 1450 to 1517
Heinrich Isaac
franco-flemmish composer that influenced German music. he was a court composer to the holy roman emperor Maximillian I in Vienna, also served in Florence -
Period: 1452 to 1518
Pierre de la Rue
leading composer in the burgundian court, very faqmous in his day, frequent use of cannons and ostinatos. preffered low sonorities -
Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
German theologen and composer;was the founder of the lutheran church. has written his writings and hymns -
Period: 1507 to 1568
Jaques Acradeld
Dutch; worked in rome and paris;famous for early madrigals and his 3 to 7 voice masses. wrote volumes of madrigals, masses and chansons. -
Period: 1515 to 1565
Cipriano de Rore
flemmish composer that worked in ferrera and parma . has written 125 madrigals,65motets, 3 masses, 8psalms, magnificats,1passion. -
Period: 1521 to
Philippe de Monte
at the viennese and praug courts; religious;mixed polyphony and homophony; one of the most prolific of the renaissance. wront over 1000 madrigals, 38 masses, 319 motets, 144 sacred madrigals, and 45 chansons. -
Period: 1532 to
Andrea Gabrieli
itialian organist, comoser and teacher; uncle of giovanni;worked in venise;pupil of Willaert; versitile and innovative. Known for masses,motets, psalms, vocal concerti, madrigals, keyboard and instrumental works. -
Period: 1535 to
Giaches de Wert
pupile of de Rore; served the dukes of manuta and parma;text declamatio was important to him; influenced montiverdi. wrot 15 volumes of madrigals, motets, and hymns. -
Period: 1548 to
Tomas Luis de Victoria
spanis sacred music composer that studied in rome and was one of the influential composers from spain of the time. he wrote 20 masses, motets, magnificats, hymns, and many liturgical pieces -
Period: 1553 to
Luca Marenzio
leadin madrigal composer of the late 16th century; worked in rome; ferrara, florence, and warsaw. influenced the english madrigal. wrote 9 books of madrigals and 75 sacred motets. -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
ahead of his time and took music into a new style. wrote 8 books of madrigals, vespers, 13 operas, not all of which survived.(more enfluental in the baroque era -
Period: 1576 to
Thomas Weelkes
an English organist. alcoholic. known for madrigals and anthems