The Renaissance Period
1300-1600
The Renaissance Period (1300-1600)
The Renaissance period of classical music spans approximately 1400 to 1600. It was preceded by the Medieval period and followed by the Baroque period. The Renaissance era of music history came significantly later than the era of Renaissance art, which arguably peaked during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, yet the Renaissance music era proved to be equally robust.
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Early Polyphony in Europe
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(England) Thomas Tallis + Polyphony, Monophony, and Homophony
LESSON: Using Voices Together!
“If Ye Love Me [The Gesualdo 6]”
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(England) William Byrd + English Church Music
LESSON: Church Music in England - Byrd and Tallis: A Musical Monopoly
“Ave Maria” [The Gesualdo 6]
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(Italy) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina + Italian Polyphony
LESSON - Palestrina: The Italian Master Of Polyphony
“Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem” [VOCES8 Scholars]
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(France) Josquin des Prez + French Polyphony
Lesson: French Polyphony, The Mass, and the Motet
“Mille Regretz” [Profeti Della Quinta]
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(Spain) Tomas Luis de Victoria + Spanish polyphony
LESSON: Palestrina's Polyphony reaches Spain
O Magnum Mysterium [Acapella Project "Sonority", Jung Hyun Ahn)]
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(Portugal) Vicente Lusitano: The Afro-Portugese composer Erased from History
LESSON: Recovering Lost Legacies
Ave, Spes Nostra [Chanticleer]
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Polychoir and Instruments: Thinking BIGGER
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(Italy) Giovanni Gabrieli + Renaissance Instruments
LESSON: San Marco: A Polychoral Playground!
LESSON: The Instruments of Renaissance Music
“Angelus Ad Pastores Ait” [St. Olaf Early Music Singers and Collegium Musicum, Gerald Hokestra]
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LESSON: Polychoral Writing (Double Choir) and Venetian Renaissance Basics 1
ANIMATION: Gabrieli
“Canzon per sonar septimi toni à 8 no. 2”
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LESSON: Polychoral writing (3+ Choirs) and Venetian Renaissance Basics 2
ANIMATION: Gabrieli
“Canzon à 12 in Echo”
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LESSON: Spem In Alium - The 40-part Renaissance Titan!
LESSON: Polychoral Writing (8+ Choirs)
“Spem in Alium” (40-Part Motet) VISUALIZATION [ORA Singers - England]
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Women of the Renaissance
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(Italy) Caterina Assandra + Convent Music
LESSON: Convents: Women Making Music in the Renaissance
“Duo Seraphim” [TENET Vocal Artists]
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(Italy) Claudia Sessa + Monody and Recitative
LESSON: Monody and Recitative
“Occhi io vissi di voi”
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(Italy) Maddalena Casulana + Breaking Musical Barriers
LESSON: The first female composer to have a book of her music printed and published in the history of western music, dedicated to her female patron Isabella de' Medici
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Part-Songs, Madrigals, Chansons
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(England) Thomas Weelkes + Orlando Di Lasso: Madrigals!
LESSON: The Madrigal (English and Italian Secular Art Songs)
“As Vesta Was on Latmos Hill Descending” and (Italy) Orlando di Lasso - Dessus le marche d'Arras [Voces8]
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(France) Clément Janequin + French Chansons
LESSON: The Chansons (French Secular Art Songs)
“La Guerre” [Mathieu Romano | Ensemble Aedes - France]
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(Italy) Carlo Gesualdo: Murder, Madness, and Madrigals
LESSON: Gesualdo's Chromaticism and the Italian Madrigal
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Monteverdi (Renaissance Transitions to the Baroque)
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(Italy) Monteverdi: The Radical
LESSON: Claudio Monteverdi - The Radical
“Laudate Pueri” [I Fagiolini]
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(Italy) Claudio Monteverdi: The First Opera
LESSON: L'Orfeo and the "First" Operas
“L'Orfeo” [La Capella Real de Catalunya; Jordi Savall]
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(Italy) Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
LESSON: Monteverdi Goes BIG (The First Oratorio?)
“Vespers of 1610” [L'Arpeggiata - Austria]
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ADVANCED and Performances
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PERFORMANCE: Vox Luminis (Monteverdi, Schütz, Gabrieli, Mainerio, Zanetti)
Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier join Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra to perform a variety of late Renaissance/Early Baroque works
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ADVANCED: Opera Italia (BBC)
DOCUMENTARY: Opera Italia (BBC)
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ADVANCED: Seven Decades with Harry Christophers
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PERFORMANCE: The Sixteen - The Call of Rome
featuring music by Victoria, Anerio, Josquin and Allegri, culminating in Allegri's eternal 'Miserere
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ADVANCED: Documentary - The Call of Rome
Designed to be watched as an accompaniment to The Choral Pilgrimage 2021 or enjoyed in its own right, this 45 minute film takes an in-depth look at three of the pieces in this year’s Choral Pilgrimage programme. Complete with full length performances as well as musical excerpts and explanation, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen set the historical and cultural context of the works.
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ADVANCED: Technique - Eamonn's Top Tips with singers from THE SIXTEEN
Join The Sixteen's Associate Conductor and bass Eamonn Dougan, and Genesis Sixteen alumni Margaret Lingas, Helena Cooke, Oscar Golden-Lee and Peter Norris for a look at a variety of vocal technique exercises
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