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    This document provides information on various medieval and Renaissance composers including their styles and best known works. It lists composers such as Adam de la Halle, Binchois, Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume Dufay, Guillaume Machaut, John Dunstaple, and Orlando de Lassus from the medieval era. Composers from the Renaissance era mentioned include Giovanni Palestrina, Johannes Ockeghem, and Thomas Tallis. Their styles are characterized by traits such as modal music, imitative counterpoint, complex polyphony, and use of techniques like isorhythm and cantus firmus. Their best known works include masses, motets, madrigals, and chansons.

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    This document provides information on various medieval and Renaissance composers including their styles and best known works. It lists composers such as Adam de la Halle, Binchois, Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume Dufay, Guillaume Machaut, John Dunstaple, and Orlando de Lassus from the medieval era. Composers from the Renaissance era mentioned include Giovanni Palestrina, Johannes Ockeghem, and Thomas Tallis. Their styles are characterized by traits such as modal music, imitative counterpoint, complex polyphony, and use of techniques like isorhythm and cantus firmus. Their best known works include masses, motets, madrigals, and chansons.

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    This document provides information on various medieval and Renaissance composers including their styles and best known works. It lists composers such as Adam de la Halle, Binchois, Hildegard of Bingen, Guillaume Dufay, Guillaume Machaut, John Dunstaple, and Orlando de Lassus from the medieval era. Composers from the Renaissance era mentioned include Giovanni Palestrina, Johannes Ockeghem, and Thomas Tallis. Their styles are characterized by traits such as modal music, imitative counterpoint, complex polyphony, and use of techniques like isorhythm and cantus firmus. Their best known works include masses, motets, madrigals, and chansons.

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    Medieval Composers

    Composer Style Characteristics Best known works


    Adam De La Halle -Inspired by folk tunes -known for secular music
    1245 -modal -Jeu de Robin et Marion
    Died: 1306 -Single voice melodies -Pastoral
    French accompanied by - Le jeu Adan or Le jeu de
    Trouvere, poet and instrumentalists la Feuillee
    musician -Montpellier
    -motets
    Binchois Gilles -Carefully Shaped Known for rondeaux
    C. 1400 melodies. secular form.
    Died: 1460 -Not in Strophic form -Kyrie Settings
    Belgium -Not too much -Gloria Settings
    One of the three most chromaticism -Amours Mercy
    famous composers of the -triatic - Adieu, adieu, mon joileux
    15th century -Landini Cadence souvenir
    -Triste plaisir et
    douleureuse joye
    -Credo
    Hildegard of Bingen -monophonic melodies - Ordo Virtutum
    1098-1179 -highly melismatic - Ave generosa
    German melodies -The origin of fire
    -large ranges for chant
    music
    Guillaume Dufay -Use of fauxbourdon -Masses
    1397-1474 -Use of Isorhythms -Motets
    Franco-Flemish -Immitation -Magnificats
    - mellifluous harmonies -Hymns
    -
    Guillaume Machaut Ars Nova style First Mass
    1300-1377 -drive to cadences - Messe de Nostre Dame
    French -complex harmony and - Bone Pastor/Bone
    rhythms Pastor/Bone Pastor.
    -Modal music with no -Ballades
    clear tonic at times -Motets
    -Immitation -Rondeaux
    John Dunstaple Burgundy School style -Two masses
    1390-1453 Canctus firmus -Isorhytmic motets
    England Landini Cadences - hymns: Veni creator
    spiritus and Veni sancte
    spiritus

    Leonin Polyphonic Organum Antiphones


    1150-1201 Ars Antiqua 2 voice early motets
    French Rhythmic modes
    Two voice early motets
    Parallel 5ths
    Francesco Landini Trecendo Style or Intalian Ballate for 2 voices
    1325-1397 Ars Nova Madrigals
    Italy Landini Cadence Music from Squarcialupi
    Imitation Codex
    Perotin Notre Dame Polyphony Viderunt Omnes
    1160-1225 Ars Antiqua Sederunt principes
    French Three and four part Posui adiutorium
    Organum Alleluia Nativitas
    Melismatic
    Florid Organum

    Philippe de Vitry Ars Nova Treatise Chanson


    1291-1361 Isorhythm Motets
    French Mensural O Canenda Vulgo per
    Imitation Compita
    In Arboris

    Renaissances
    Composer
    Orlando De Lassus Complex and Refine -Matona Mia Cara
    1532-1594 Polyphony - Magnificat
    Belgium More common cadences Motets
    Musica reservata Madrigals
    Chromaticism Chansons
    Giovanni Palestrina Dissonances in weak beats Masses
    1525-1594 More refine counterpoint Madrigals
    Italy and imitation Motets
    Moving lines Offeratories
    Cadences looking more like
    PAC and HC
    Johannes Ockeghem Cantus Firmus Missa prolationum
    1410-1497 Landinin cadences and Missa cuiusvis toni
    Belgium double leading tone cadence
    Mensuration canons Motets
    Complex rhythms Chansons

    Thomas Tallis Syllabic and not to florid Antiphones


    1505-1585 Rhythmic variety Spem in Allium
    England Complex Harmonies Magnificat
    Refine Counterpoint Salve intemerata virgo
    Many voices polyphony Ave rosa sine spinis
    Ave Dei patris filia

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