Musicians of the Renaissance

1. The transition to the Renaissance. Development of polyphony: Guido d'Arezzo

The Notre-Dame school

Ars nova: Ars antiqua

Monophonic secular song

The early Renaissance: The court of Burgundy ; New religious musical forms ; Secular music

The Franco-Flemish school

Instrumental music: Musical forms ; Toccata ; Solo and ensemble instruments

Renaissance vocal music: Italy ; England ; France ; Germany and other areas of Europe

2. Renaissance musical instruments. Lute

Other stringed instruments: Theorbo ; Rebec ; Viol ; Percussion instruments

Organ

Stringed keyboard instruments: Clavichord ; Harpsichord ; Spinet ; Psaltery ; Virginal ; Assorted wind instruments ; Serpent

3. Early Renaissance composers. John Dunstable

Guillaume Dufay: Chanson

Binchois

Jean de Ockeghem

Jakob Obrecht

Josquin des Pres: Counterpoint in the Renaissance

Heinrich Isaac

Loyset Compere

Pierre de La Rue

Jean Mouton

4. Later Renaissance composers active in Italy. Jacques Arcadelt: Frottole

Philippe de Monte

Orlando di Lasso

Giaches de Wert

Luca Marenzio

Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza: Renaissance music printers

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Life ; Music

Andrea Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli

Claudio Monteverdi: The Gonzaga court ; Three decades in Venice

5. Later Renaissance composers active in England: Robert Fayrfax

John Taverner

Christopher Tye

Thomas Tallis: Fitzwilliam Virginal book

William Byrd: Life ; Legacy

Thomas Morley

John Dowland

John Bull

John Wilbye

Thomas Campion: Ayre

Francis Pilkington

Thomas Weelkes

Robert Johnson

Orlando Gibbons

6. Later Renaissance composers active in other countries. Clement Janequin

Claudin de Sermisy: The Genevan Psalter

Loys Bourgeois

Claude Goudimel

Claude Le Jeune

Ludwig Senfl

Hans Leo Hassler: Lied

Cristobal de Morales

Antonio de Cabezon: Villancico

Francisco Guerrero

Adriaan Willaert

Nicolas Gombert

Jacobus Clemens

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.