Hugo de Lantins
(fl. c.1430)
Arnold de Lantins
(fl. c.1430)
Gilles Binchois
(c.1400-1460)
Jean Brassart
(c.1400-1470)
Guillaume Dufay
(c.1400-1474)
Conrad Paumann
(c.1410-1473)
Johannes Ockeghem (c1415-1497)
Walter Frye
(fl. c1450-1475)
Robert Morton
(c1430-after 1475)
Antoine Busnois
(c1430-1492)
Johannes Tinctoris
(c1435-1511)
Johannes Martini
(c1440-1497 or 1498)
Heinrich Finck
(1444 or 1445-1527)
Hayne van Ghizeghem (c.1445-c.1480)
Gaspar van Weerbeke (c.1445-after 1517)
Alexander Agricola
(1446?-1506)
Josquin des Prez
(c.1450-1521)
Heinrich Isaac
c.1450-1517)
Loyset Compčre
(c1450-1518)
Arnolt Schlick
(c1450-c1525)
Franchinus Gaffurius
(1451-1522)
Jacob Obrecht
(c1453-1505)
Jean Mouton
(c1459-1522)
Paul Hofhaimer
(1459-1537)
Pierre de La Rue
(c1460-1518)
Antoine Brumel
(1460-after 1520)
Robert Fayrfax
(1464-1521)
Richard Davy
(c1465-c1507)
William Cornysh
(c1465-1523)
Pedro de Escobar
(c1465-1535)
Martin Agricola
(1486-1556)
Juan del Encina
(1468-c1529)
Marchetto Cara
c1470-1525?)
Carpentras
(c1470-1548)
Antoine de Févin
(c1470-1511 or 1512)
Robert de Févin
fl. late 15th, early 16th c.) (brother of Antoine de Févin)
Mathieu Gascongne
(fl. early 16th c.)
Francisco de Peńalosa (c1470-1528)
Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c1470-c1535)
Filippo de Lurano
(c1475-c1520)
Philippe Verdelot
(c1475-before 1552)
Gasparo Alberti
(c1480-1560)
Jean Richafort
(c1480-1547)
Hans Buchner
(1483-c1540)
Jacquet of Mantua
(1483-1559)
Hugh Aston
(c1485-1558)
Clément Janequin
(c1485-1558)
Pierre Moulu
(c1485-c1550)
Ludwig Senfl
(c1486-c1542)
John Taverner
(c1490-1545)
Leonhard Kleber
(c1490-1556)
Bernardo Pisano
(1490-1548)
Thomas Crecquillon
(c1490-?1557)
Claudin de Sermisy
(c1490-1562)
Adrian Willaert
(c1490-1562)
Costanzo Festa
(c1495-1545)
Nicolas Gombert
(c1495-c1560)
Johann Walter
(1496-1570)
Bartolomé de Escobedo (c1500-1563)
Cristóbal de Morales
(c1500-1553)
Luis de Milán
(c1500-c1561)
Tielman Susato
(c1500-c1562)
Jacques Arcadelt
(1505?-1568) (also known as Jacob Arcadelt)
Christopher Tye
(c1505-1572?)
Thomas Tallis
(c1505-1585)
Johannes Lupi
(c1506-1539)
Bálint Bakfark
(1507-1576) (aka Valentin/Valentine/Valentinus Bakfark)
Alonso Mudarra
(c1510-1580)
Jean Maillard
(c1510-c1570)
Jacob Clemens non Papa (c1510-c1555) (Jacques Clément)
Pierre de Manchicourt (c1510-1564)
Juan Bermudo
(c1510-c1565)
Antonio de Cabezón
(1510-1566)
Loys Bourgeois
(c1510-1560) (also known as Louis Bourgeois)
Diego Ortiz
(c1510-c1570)
Claude Goudimel
(c1510-1572)
Andrea Gabrieli
(c.1510-1586)
Vincenzo Ruffo
(c.1510-1587)
Pierre Certon
(d.1572)
John Sheppard
(c1515-1559)
Cypriano de Rore
(c1515-1565)
Tomás de Santa María (c1515-1570)
Gioseffo Zarlino
(1517-1590)
Vincenzo Galilei
(c.1520-1591)
Philippe de Monte
(1521-1603)
Girolamo Cavazzoni
(c1525-after 1577)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
(c1525-1594)
Baldassare Donato
(1525 to 1530-1603)
Francisco Guerrero
(1528-1599)
Costanzo Porta (c1529-1601)
Elias N. Ammerbach
(c1530-1597)
Guillaume Costeley
(1530-1606)
Claude Le Jeune (1530-1600)
Orlandus Lassus
(c1531-1594) (also known as Orlando di Lasso)
Jacobus de Kerle
(1531 or 1532-1591)
Claudio Merulo
(1533-1604)
Alessandro Striggio
(c1535-1592)
Pietro Vinci
(c1535-1584)
Giaches de Wert
(1535-1596)
William Byrd
(1543-1623)
Alfonso Ferrabosco
(1543-1588)
Giovanni Maria Nanino (Nanini)
(1543 or 1544-1607)
Girolamo Dalla Casa (d.1601)
Luzzasco Luzzaschi
(c1545-1607)
Giulio Caccini
(c1545-1618)
Marc Antonio Ingegneri (c1547-1592)
Manuel Mendes
(c1547-1605)
Francesco Soriano
(c1548-1621)
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Eustache Du Caurroy
(1549-1609)
Emilio de' Cavalieri
(c1550-1602)
Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl)
(1550-1591)
Pomponio Nenna
(c1550-1613
Orazio Vecchi
(1550-1605)
Luca Marenzio
(c1553-1599)
Paolo Bellasio
(1554-1594)
Girolamo Diruta
(c1554-after 1610)
Alonso Lobo
(c1555-1617)
Giovanni Croce
(c1557-1609)
Jacques Mauduit
(1557-1627)
Thomas Morley
(1557-1603)
Giovanni Gabrieli
(1557-1612)
Giovanni Bassano
(c1558-1617)
Carlo Gesualdo
(1560-1613)
Antonio Il Verso
(c1560-1621)
Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (1560-1623)
Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
Felice Anerio
(c1560-1614)
Jacopo Peri
(1561-1633)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Hans Leo Hassler
(1562-1612)
John Bull
(1562-1628)
John Dowland
(1563-1626)
Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic
(1564-1621)
Duarte Lobo
(c1565-1647)
Manuel Cardoso
(1566-1650)
Thomas Campion
(1567-1620)
Christoph Demantius
(1567-1643)
Michael Praetorius
(c1571-1621)
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656)
Juan Pujol
(c1573-1626)
John Wilbye
(1574-1638)
Thomas Weelkes
(1576-1623)
Melchior Franck
(1579-1639)
Sigismondo d'India
(c1582-1629)
Orlando Gibbons
(1583-1625)
Antonio Cifra
(1584-1629)
John Jenkins
(1592-1678)
According to
Margaret Bent (1998), "Renaissance notation is
under-prescriptive by our standards; when translated
into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight
that over specifies and distorts its original
openness." Accidentals were not necessary, somewhat
like fingering notation today. However, Renaissance
musicians would have been highly trained in dyadic
counterpoint and thus possessed this and other
information necessary to read a score, "what modern
notation requires [accidentals] would then have been
perfectly apparent without notation to a singer
versed in counterpoint." A singer would interpret
his or her part by figuring cadential formulas with
other parts in mind, and when singing together
musicians would avoid parallel octaves and fifths or
alter their cadential parts in light of decisions by
other musicians (Bent, 1998).
