Renaissance Music

Overview of music in the Renaissance:-

The Old Hall manuscript

Isorhythmic motets and Ordinary mass settings in pairs (Gloria-Credo; Sanctus-Agnus dei)

Fauxbourdon and English discant style

Continental manuscripts (Trent Codices, Bologna 2216, Bologna Q15, Munich 3232a, Astoa A'D19, Modena a X.1.11, etc.)

Secular music in renaissance manuscripts - Ballades, Virelais, and Rondeaux

Monophonic dance tunes of the fifteenth century (Brussels MS 9085 and S' ensuit l'art et instruction de bien dancer)

Italian dance tunes and the treatise by Antonio Cornazano

Monophonic Chansonniers (Paris, Bibl. nat. fr. 9346 and Paris, Bibl. nat. fr.12744)

Eight Chansonniers of the mid-fifteenth century (Dijon; Sevilla-Paris; Mellon; Copenhegen; Escorial, Laborde, Nivelle de la Chaussee, Pixerecourt)

Vocal music in England I (Egerton MS 3307, Eaton choir book, Ritson manuscript, Fayrfax manuscript, etc.)

Four Florentine Chansonniers of the late fifteenth century (Florence 229, Florence 117, Bologna Q17, Cappella Giulia)

Collections of chansons printed by Ottaviano Petrucci (Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A, Canti B numero cinquanta, and Canti C No. cento cinquanta)

Frottolists and their music (Modena a.F.9.9, etc.)

Petrucci and his motet anthologies

Italian madrigal

Parisian chansons

Vocal music in England II (King Henry VIII's Songbook, The Baldwin Commonplace book, The Lant Roll, Ravenscroft's Pammelia, etc.)

Lute-songs, English madrigals, and Consort music (In nomine)

Keyboard music in England (Oxford Mus.371, Royal App. 56, Royal App. 58, Virginal MSS, etc.)

Lute music in England (Royal App.58, Dublin Viriginal MS, etc.)

Catholic music in Germany from late fifteenth century onwards (Munich mus.3154, Apel Codex, Lindner choirbook, etc.)

German Lied and Lutheran music

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