Hildegard von Bingen
1098-1179
Early organum and chant
Adam de la Halle
1240-1288
Troubadore/trouvere & Motets
Leonin
1150-1201
Notre Dame Polyphony: Two Voices
Perotin
Late 12th century to early 13th century
Notre Dame Polyphony: three and occasionally four voice polyphony
Phillippe de Vitry
1291-1361
“inventor” of ars nova, wrote motets, used isorhythm
Guillaume de Machaut
1300-1377
Ars Nova
Had all of his works published in a collection (one of the first to do that)
Wrote Messe de Notre Dame (1360s) one of first complete masses by one person, one of earliest polyphonic mass ordinaries
Jacopo de Bologna
1340-1386
Treccento composer of fourteenth century madrigals
Gherardello da Firenze
1320-1362
Treccento composer of caccia
Francesco Landini
1325-1397
organist and composer of ballate, madrigals, caccia and virelai
music features consonant 63 harmonies, graceful melodies, and first consistent user of the landini cadence (tenor descends a step, upper voice descends a step and then rises a third)
Philippus de Caserta
active in 1370s
Ars Subtilior composer of formes fixes songs
John Dunstable
1390-1453
Renaissance English composer of all polyphonic genres
Probably spent much of career in france, influenced continental composers
Guillaume du Fay
1397-1474
Most famous Burgundian composer: traveled widely on the continent and had a cosmopolitan style. Wrote Chansons, Chants and Motets.
Binchois
1400-1460
Court musician at Burgundy. Contact with english and 30 years at court: central to creation of burgundian style
Jean de Ockeghem
1420-1497
Famous franco-flemish composer of masses and chansons (among others)
Antoine Busnoys
1430-1492
Franco-flemish
primarily chansons: served Charles the Bold, Mary of Burgundy, and Maximilian of Hapsburg
Henricus Isaac
1450-1517
worked for Lorenzo de Medici & HRE Maximiliam I
Many sacred polyphonic works and German Lieder
Josquin des Prez
1450-1521
Works appear in many Petrucci anthologies, three books of Josquin masses printed
wrote many motets
clear phrasing, form, and tonality, transparent textures, imitation and homophony, careful declamation of text