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  2. A cappella - Wikipedia

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    Music performed a cappella (/ ˌɑː kəˈpɛlə / AH kə-PEL-ə, UK also / ˌæ kəˈpɛlə / AK ə-PEL-ə, Italian: [a kkapˈpɛlla]; [1] lit. 'in the style of the chapel'), less commonly spelled a capella in English, [2] is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment. The term a cappella was originally ...

  3. List of early music ensembles - Wikipedia

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    Stile Antico: early music vocal ensemble. Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music. Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott): Renaissance choir and baroque orchestra. Theatre of Voices: vocal consort. Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts): Renaissance and contemporary choir.

  4. Renaissance music - Wikipedia

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    One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third and its inversion, the sixth (in the Middle Ages, thirds and sixths had been considered dissonances, and only perfect intervals were treated as consonances: the perfect fourth the perfect fifth, the octave, and the unison).

  5. Sistine Chapel Choir - Wikipedia

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    The Sistine Chapel Choir, as it is generally called in English, or officially the Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina in Italian, is the Pope's personal choir. It performs at papal functions in the Sistine Chapel and in any other church in Rome where the Pope is officiating, including St. Peter's Basilica.

  6. Madrigal - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) [citation needed] periods, although revisited by some later European composers. [1] The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number of voices varies from two to eight, but the form usually features ...

  7. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) [n 1] was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School, with Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria, Palestrina is considered the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe. [1]

  8. Josquin des Prez - Wikipedia

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    Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez (c. 1450–1455 – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the Franco-Flemish School and had a profound influence on the music of 16th-century Europe.

  9. Tomás Luis de Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria; c. 1548 – c. 20–27 August 1611) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance.He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Renaissance, and was "admired above all for the intensity of some of his motets and of his Offices for the Dead and for Holy ...