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