Dukes of Burgundy (Philip the Good, Charles the Bold)
Philip the Good
- most prominent; they were spending money on music
- First Duke of Burgundy
- Established a chapel and it soon became one o Europe’s largest and most resplendent.
Charles the Bold
- Philip the Good’s successor
- Keen on music
- Amateur instrumentalist and composer
- Left no male heir
- Daughter, Mary of Burgundy, and her son, Philip the Fair, continued to reign over Burgundian territories.
John Dunstable
Leonel Power
- (d. 1445)
- A compatriot of Dunstable
- Missa Alma redemptoris Mater
Johannes Tinctoris
- Wrote a leading counterpoint treatise
- Liber de arte contrapuncti (A Book on the Art of Counterpoint, 1477)
- Deplored the compositions of older musicians, in which there were more dissonances than consonances.
- Proclaimed that nothing written before 1430 was worth hearing.
- Sympathetic to humanism
Martin Le Franc
Guillaume Du Fay
Gilles Binchois
Johannes Ockegem
Antoine Busnois
Josquin de Prez
Henrich Isaac
Ottaviano Petrucci
Triple impression printing
Pierre Attaignant
- Single Impression Printing
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
Johann Walther
- Luther’s side kick composer
Ulrich Zwingli
Ulrich Zwingli
John Clavin
John Clavin
Giovanni Palestrina
16th-c. English Monarchs: King Henry VIII
16th-c. English Monarchs: Edward VI
16th-c. English Monarchs: Edward VI
16th-c. English Monarchs: Mary I
16th-c. English Monarchs: Elizabeth I
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis
Marchetto Cara
Juan del Encina
Jacques Arcadelt
Orlando di Lasso
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca
Pietro Bembo
Cipriano de Rore
Luca Marenzio
Carlo Gesualdo
Claudin de Sermisy
Claude Le Jeune
Thomas Morley
Thomas Weelkes
John Dowland
Tielman Susato
Anthony Holborne
Giovanni Gabrieli
Heinrich Schütz