O Bone Jesu by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of …
Largo from Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination …
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The Eagles Force by William Byrd (1540-1623) William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school) and consort music.
Fantasia by William Byrd (1540-1623) William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school) and consort music.
Tremolo Sobre La Cuarta by Francisco de Salinas (1513–1590) Francisco de Salinas was a Spanish music theorist and organist. Blind from the age of ten, Salinas served as organist to the celebrated Duke of Alba, and afterwards (starting in 1567) as professor of music at the University of Salamanca. His own compositions for organ have …
Gigue by Johann Weichenberger (1676-1740) Johann Georg Weichenberger was an Austrian lutenist, composer , and the official Viennese Hofbuchhaltung. In his compositions used Weichenberger the French galant style . Weichenberger composed many suites and partitas for lute, and concertos for lute, violin and bass.
Tordion by Pierre Attaingnant (1494-1552) Pierre Attaingnant was a French music printer, active in Paris. Attaingnant is considered to be first large-scale publisher of single-impression movable type for music-printing, thus making it possible to print faster and cheaper than predecessors such as Ottaviano Petrucci.
Entree de luth by Robert Ballard (1572-1575) Robert Ballard was a prominent French lutenist and composer. From 1612 he entered the service of the French Regent, Maria de Medici, and was tutor to the young King Louis XIII, becoming a lutenist and composer at the royal court in 1618. He published two books of lute …
Italiana by Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591) Vincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and of the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance, and contributed significantly to the musical revolution …
Fantasia XXII by Luys Milan (16th century) This work, printed in Valencia, Spain in 1536, also includes forty fantasias (a type of free-form piece) for solo vihuela, and some 22 songs with vihuela accompaniment. In addition, El Maestro is the earliest source containing verbal indications of tempo and a set of instructions for playing the …
