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19th-century composer and pianist Clara Schumann. Owing to sexism, women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from the music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the patriarchical Western canon, even though many women have composed music. [a] The reasons for women's absence are various.
fl. late 15th – early 16th century: English Presumably identical with the Sturton who composed the six-part Ave Maria ancilla Trinitatis in the Lambeth Choirbook, he contributed a Gaude virgo mater Christi to the Eton Choirbook, the six voices of which cover a fifteen-note range Robert de Févin: fl. late 15th–early 16th century: French
Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and published in the history of western music, dedicated to her female patron Isabella de' Medici. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Artemisia Gentileschi, St Cecilia Playing a ...
Francesca Caccini ([franˈtʃeska katˈtʃiːni]; 18 September 1587 – between 1641 and 1645 most likely; or she may have remarried. [1]) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" [la tʃekˈkiːna], given to her by the Florentines and probably ...
t. e. Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡijom də maʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw (θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate ...
Along with John Dunstaple, he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century. [6] [7] Power is the composer best represented in the Old Hall Manuscript, one of the only undamaged sources of English music from the early 15th century. He was one of the first composers to set separate movements of the ordinary of the mass ...
Part of this divergence was from the death of Machaut, where—after a brief continuance of the Ars nova style through the post-Machaut generation of F. Andrieu, Grimace, Jehan Vaillant and P. des Molins —there was a new rhythmically-complex style now known as ars subtilior. The major figures of ars subtilior included both composers from ...
15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:16th-century composers. It includes 16th-century composers that can also be ...