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Gibbons's "The Silver Swan" is a swan song: an artistic trope which depicts the legend of the swan which, supposably silent throughout its life, performs a despairful song before its death. [30] According to Helen Sword "the swan song, of course, has long served as a favorite metaphor for both the proximity of art to death and for the triumph ...
Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...
Renaissance Chansons is mainly for those European songs which were extensively developed by many composers or were used (e.g. as cantus firmus) for mass settings, in the period 1400-1600. Pages in category "Renaissance chansons"
"Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" ("Innsbruck, I must leave thee") is a German Renaissance song. It was first published as a choral movement by the Franco-Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450–1517); the melody was probably written by him.
Guillaume Tell, his swan-song, has a vast sweep [23] only equalled in the 19th century by the later works of Verdi, Mussorgsky and Wagner. Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861) German composer who was the most important exponent of German Romantic opera in the generation between Weber and Wagner. [24]
Luigi Denza (1846–1922), Neapolitan song composer of Funiculì, Funiculà; Manuel De Peppe (born 1970) Manuel De Sica (1949–2014) Christian De Walden (born 1946) Eduardo Di Capua (1865–1917) Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610) Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 1967) Pino Donaggio (born 1941) Baldassare Donato (1525/30–1603), also known ...
This is a list of English composers of the Renaissance period in alphabetical order. Richard Alison (c. 1560/1570–before 1610) John Amner (1579–1641) Hugh Aston (c. 1485–1558) Thomas Ashwell (c. 1478–after 1513) John Benet (fl. 1420–1450) John Bennet (c. 1575–after 1614) William Brade (1560–1630) John Browne (fl. c. 1490) John ...
[7] [8] Matters are made more confusing as his father had lived in Cambridge for at least ten years before the birth of Gibbons. [9] Therefore, even though 17th-century biographer Anthony Wood discovered a record of an "Orlando Gibbons" being baptised in St Martin's Church, Oxford , [ 10 ] it was assumed that Gibbons was born in Cambridge but ...