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115 matches to Renaissance Music
Franco de Colonia. 13C. Systemized musical notation.
Gabrieli, Andrea. c1510-86. Venetian church music composer. First to combine voice and instruments in concerto form.
Gluck, Christoph. 1714-87. Bohemian composer: Orpheus 1762. Developed opera as drama with music.
Grieg, Edvard. 1843-1907. Norwegian “miniaturist” composer: Peer Gynt 1875. Gentle and appealing music.
Guido d’Arezzo. c990-1050. Italian Benedictine monk. Invented musical staff.
Handel, George Frideric. 1685-1759. German/ English composer of oratorio, Italian opera. Peak of polyphonic music. Water Music 1717. Messiah 1741. Music for Royal Fireworks 1749.
Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.
Haydn, Joseph. 1732-1809. Austrian Classical composer. Father of modern symphony and string quartet. Solomon Symphony 1791-5. English Symphony 1794. Seasons 1801.
Hindemith, Paul. 1895-1963. German Gebrauchmusik movement composer. Music as social expression.
Howells, Herbert. 1892-1983. British church music composer.
Impressionism. 1867-86. European art movement named 1874 for Monet’s Impression Sunrise. Direct from nature with colors to render surfaces and lighting effects. Rejected primacy of subject. Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Manet. Music: 1892-1910. Restraint and ambiguity. Mood music. Debussy.
Internationale. Revolutionary song based on a poem by Pottier, 1871. Music by Degeyter.
Ireland, John. 1879-1962. English chamber music composer. Forgotten Rite 1913.
Isthmian Games. 582BC-393 AD. Corinthian athletic, musical competitions. Olympics.
Josquin des Prés. c1445-1521. Flemish composer of motets and masses. Advanced musical expressiveness. -“Father of Musicians”.
Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.
Kodály. 1882-1967. Hungarian composer and collector of folk melodies. Corpus Musicae 1951.
Kyrle Society. 1875. Founded by Hill sisters to develop taste for literature and music among London poor.
Lloyd Webber, Andrew. 1948-. British composer of popular musicals. Jesus Christ, Superstar 1971. Evita 1978. Cats 1981. Phantom of the Opera.
Love Generation. 1960-9. Term applied to hippies who rejected past values for instant pleasures of drugs and music.
Luther, Martin. 1483-1546. German Christian reformer opposed to indulgences. Wittenberg. -’Even if heaven and hell do not exist, education is important’ Justification by faith alone. Melanchthon. 95 Theses 1517. Treatise on Christian Liberty. New Testament translated to vernacular 1522. Catechisms 1529. Canticles 1533. Excommunicated 1520, burns Papal Bull. Choral composer: moral effects of music.
Machaut, Guillaume de. c1300-77. French composer of secular and church music in Ars Nova style.
Marsyas. Mythical Phrygian artist. Challenged Apollo to musical contest.
Medieval Music. 476-13C. Church oriented. Evolved from Plainsong to polyphonic.
Mendelssohn-(Bartholdy), Felix. 1809-47. German Classical Romantic melodic composer. Hebrides 1829.