Renaissance Composers

Question 1

ca. 1390-1453

Answer 1

John Dunstable

Question 2

• Most highly regarded English composer of the first half of the fifteenth century
• Influenced continental composers

Answer 2

John Dunstable

Question 3

works:

• up to 3 polyphonic mass cycles
• 2 Gloria-Credo pairs
• 15 other Mass Ordinary movements
• 12 isorhythmic motets
• 6 plainchant settings
• 20 other Latin sacred works
• 5 secular songs

Answer 3

John Dunstable

Question 4

Three-Part:

• Most numerous and historically important
• Includes hymns, antiphons, and Mass sections
• Paraphrase technique
• Chant in top voice
• Rhythmic variety

Answer 4

John Dunstable

Question 5

ca. 1397-1474

Answer 5

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 6

• The most famous composer of his time
• French, Italian, English and Burgundian
• music reflects these influences
• sometimes combining different styles in the same work
• international style

Answer 6

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 7

• illegitimate son of a priest
• born in Belgium
• Choirboy, then priest
• served twice in papal chapel
• served in Burgundian court under Duke Philip the Good (r. 1419-67)

Answer 7

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 8

• music survives in almost 100 manuscripts from ca. 1420s to 16th cent.
• From Spain to Poland, and from Italy to Scotland – Internationally admired

Answer 8

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 9

Works:

• at least 6 masses, 35 other Mass mvts.
• 4 Magnificats, 60 hymns and other chant settings
• 24 motets (13 isorhythmic, 11 freely composed)
• 34 plainchants melodies
• 60 rondeaux, 8 ballades, 13 other secular songs

Answer 9

Guillaume Du Fay

Question 10

ca. 1450-1521

Answer 10

Josquin des Prez

Question 11

• Most influential composer of his time
• Josquin Lebloitte, northern France
• Duke of Anjou
• Singer
• King Louis XII
• maestro di cappella to Duke Ercole I d’Este in Ferrara
• Notre Dame at Condé-sur-l’Escaut

Answer 11

Josquin des Prez

Question 12

works:

• 18 masses
• Over 50 motets
• About 65 chansons (10 for instruments)

other works

• Text depiction and expression
• Famous- works performed almost 100 years after death

Answer 12

Josquin des Prez

Question 13

ca. 1540-1623

Answer 13

William Byrd

Question 14

music:

• Wrote in secular vocal and instrumental music
• both Anglican service music and Latin masses and motets

Answer 14

William Byrd

Question 15

works:

• a Great Service, three Short Services
• psalms
• full anthems and verse anthems
• 3 masses
• 180+ motets

Answer 15

William Byrd

Question 16

Man of Two Religions

• Worked for Church of England
• Was a practicing Catholic
• 1590s began to write music for liturgical use by Catholics
• compiled two books Gradulalia (1605 and 1607)

Answer 16

William Byrd

Question 17

ca. 1532-1594

Answer 17

Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)

Question 18

• Franco-Flemish composer in Germany

* Born in Hainaut, region of Du Fay, Ockeghem, and Josquin

Answer 18

Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)

Question 19

works:

• composed over 2000 pieces
• 57 masses
• over 700 motets
• 101 Magnificats
• hundreds of other liturgical compositions
• 200 Italian madrigals
• 150 French chansons
• 90 German Lieder;
• Master of Flemish, French, Italian, and German styles
• can speak of a “Lasso style”
• Influenced later German composers

Answer 19

Orlando di Lasso (Lassus)

Question 20

ca. 1555-1612

Answer 20

Giovanni Gabreli

Question 21

• Studied with Orlando di Lasso
• 1585 won appt. of second organist at St. Mark’s
• Same year also elected organist to Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Answer 21

Giovanni Gabreli

Question 22

works:

• Music of large proportions
• About 100 motets
• Over 30 madrigals
• 37 ensemble canzonas
• 7 sonatas
• About 35 organ works including ricercares, canzonas, toccatas, and intonazioni

Answer 22

Giovanni Gabreli