Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University School of Music


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Major Renaissance Composers by Generation


Composers listed in boldface are represented in NAWM


English predecessors John Dunstable (ca. 1390-1453)
Leonel Power (d. 1445)
First (Du Fay) generation
(Burgundians)
Binchois (Gilles de Bins) (ca. 1400-1460)
Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397-1474)
Second (Ockeghem) generation
(Netherlanders/Flemish)
Jean de Ockeghem (ca. 1420-1497)
Antoine Busnoys (ca. 1430-1492)
Third (Josquin) generation
(Netherlanders/Flemish)
Henricus Isaac (ca. 1450-1517)
Josquin des Prez (ca. 1450-1521)
Jacob Obrecht (1457/8-1505)
Juan del Encina (1468-1529)
Fourth (post-Josquin) generation Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Adrian Willaert (ca. 1490-1562)
Claudin de Sermisy (ca. 1490-1562)
Luis de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549)
Pierre Attaingnant (ca. 1494-ca. 1552)
Nicolas Gombert (ca. 1495-ca. 1560)
Jacques Arcadelt (ca. 1507-1568)
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510-ca. 1555)
Palestrina/Lasso generation Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)
Claude Le Jeune (ca. 1528-1600)
Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)
Late Renaissance composers William Byrd (ca. 1540-1623)
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
Giovanni Gabrieli (ca. 1555-1612)
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602)
Carlo Gesualdo (ca. 1561-1613)
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Thomas Weelkes (ca. 1575-1623)
 

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