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115 matches to Renaissance Music
Tudor Architecture. c16C. English late Gothic style. Timber frame construction. Renaissance influenced decoration. Elizabethan.
Uccello, Paolo. 1397-1475. Florentine Gothic/Renaissance painter. Perspective pioneer. Flood 1447.
Vasari, Giorgio. 1511-74. Italian Mannerist painter, architect, writer. Coined term Renaissance. Painters Lives 1550. Uffizi Palace architect.
Ambrose, St. c340-397. Bishop of Milan. Introduced Plainsong (chant) into church music.
Angelico, Fra. c1400-55. Florentine classical colorist painter: Convent of St. Mark. Madonna and Angel Musicians 1433.
Apollo. Greek/Roman perfection of male beauty, god of prophecy, song and music.
Bach, Johann Sebastian. 1685-1750. German composer of fugues and chorales. Peak of polyphonic music. Brandenburg Concerto 1721. Well Tempered Clavier. Art of Fugue 1749.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Balakirev, Mili. 1837-1910. Russian composer. Influenced 19C Russian music. Overture on Russian Themes 1897.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Beethoven, Ludwig van. 1770-1827. German composer expressing emotions in music. Tone poet. Developed form and structure. “The Shakespeare of music”. 9 Symphonies. Eroica 1804. 5th 1807. 9th 1824.
Benten. Japanese god of reasoning. Patron of literature, music, femininity.
Bruckner, Anton. 1824-96. Austrian Classical Romantic composer of symphonies, masses. Romantic Symphony 1874.
Burgundian. Dominant European musical school in 15C. Dufay.
Caccini, Giulio. 1550-1618. Italian composer. Monodic music, early operas.
Cage, John. 1912-92. Father of US avant-garde musical movement. Experiments with randomness and new sounds.
Carrillo, Julian. 1875-1965. Mexican composer of microtonic music.
Cavaliere, Emilio del. c1550-1602. Added arias and choral movements to cantatas. Early dramatic music.
Cecilia, St. 2-3C. Patron saint of music.
Cherubini, Luigi. 1760-1842. Italian/French composer. Classical form; French opera.
Classical Music. ~1750-1820. Development of sonata, symphony, string quartet. Mozart. Beethoven. Haydn.
Dvorák, Antonin. 1841-1901. Czech Nationalist composer. New World Symphony 1893. Classical form with folk spontaneity.
Expressionism. 20C Music style of intense emotion, conflict, distortion. Mahler. Strauss.
Falla, Manuel de. 1876-1946. Spanish composer influenced by folk music, Debussy. Nights in the Garden of Spain 1916.
Flemish. School of Music. 1450-1550. Vocal contrapuntal ideal of a capella.