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1500: November 3, Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (died February 13, 1571) probable. Arnold von Bruck, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1554) [13] Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (died 1553) [14] 1502: July 27 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (died 1571) c. 1505
Pages in category "16th-century songs" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "15th-century songs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agincourt Carol; B.
c. 1500 — The witty, earthy songs of the Florentine carnival, the canti carnascialeschi, are in vogue. 1501 — Ottaviano dei Petrucci publishes the Odhecaton, the first substantial collection of printed polyphonic music. 1516 — Andrea Antico publishes the earliest printed Italian music for keyboard.
From the Renaissance era, notated secular and sacred music survives in quantity, including vocal and instrumental works and mixed vocal/instrumental works. A wide range of musical styles and genres flourished during the Renaissance, including masses, motets, madrigals, chansons, accompanied songs, instrumental dances, and many others.
It uses the tune of an English drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" by John Stafford Smith. [216] [217] Rayner Taylor's romantic grand opera, The Acthiop; Or, The Child of the Desert, is a popular and influential composition, which remains in production into the 1860s. [59]
By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads". [20] Some of Stephen Foster 's songs exemplify this genre. By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form.
Many of his songs still exist today. William Byrd was the chief organist and composer for Queen Elizabeth. Also during the 16th century were John Bull (1562–1628), best-known organist of the Elizabethan era, and John Dowland (1563–1626), leading composer of lute music. John Dowland published his first book of songs or "ayres" in 1597.