oiseaux’ (‘The Song of the Birds’), which consists largely of an ornithological survey, with the music imitating types of birdsong. Recommended Recording: Le chant des oyseaulx, Ensemble Clément Janequin (dir) Dominique Visse Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Josquin des Prez | Renaissance | Classical ...
veneta (‘The Venetian Boat’), with its cast of stereotypes articulating the prejudices of provincial northern Italy in the seventeenth century. Recommended Recording: Barca di Venetia per Padova, Ensemble Clément Janequin (Harmonia Mundi) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | John Bull | Renaissance | Classical ...
The texts are light and often playful. He was also an important composer of motets in the French style of Josquin. Recommended Recording: Les cris de Paris, Ensemble Clément Janequin (dir) Dominique Visse (Harmonia Mundi) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Thomas Tallis | Renaissance | Classical ...
received his doctorate for his study of Isaac. Recommended Recording: Missa de apostolis, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Clément Janequin | Renaissance | Classical ...
him, his mother-tongue was French and perhaps for this reason his most personal contribution was in the domain of the chanson, where he followed in the footsteps of Janequin and Sermisy. In these, Lassus’s extraordinary sensitivity to text is everywhere in evidence, whether painting a musical picture of a nocturnal landscape (‘La nuit froide et sombre’), serenading ...
print rather than in manuscripts. Composers based in Paris in the 1530s and 1540s developed a new style, simple and lyrical, often using light-hearted texts. Of this group Janequin is perhaps best known for his witty, descriptive chansons, such as ‘La guerre’ and ‘Le chant des oiseaux’, in which the voices depict the sounds of war and ...
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