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(Kre-sto’-bal da Mo-ra’-las) c. 1500–53 Spanish composer Morales spent much of his career at the papal court, serving under Leo X and Paul III. He wrote little secular music and his fame rests on his sacred works, which include Masses, motets, lamentations and a book of Magnificat settings. Widely disseminated in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latin America, Morales’ ...

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texts from Guarini’s Il pastor fido. Recommended Recording: Missa Si ambulavero, Motets, New College Choir (dir) Edward Higginbottom (CRD) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Cristóbal de Morales | Renaissance | Classical ...

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(Vocals, b. 1971) Born in Puerto Rico, Enrique Martin Morales, was a member of the Latin boy-band Menudo in the 1980s. As an actor he also enjoyed TV work in Mexico and America, notably as a singing bartender in General Hospital. Martin made his Spanish-language solo debut in 1991 and a string of albums like A Medio ...

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Raul Gutiérrez Grillo on 16 February 1912, in Cuba. The young vocalist/maraca man hit New York City in 1937, where he played stints with Xavier Cugat and Noro Morales before forming his own band, Machito’s Afro-Cubans. By 1940, Machito asked his brother-in-law, Mario Bauzá (who was married to his sister Estella), a trumpeter, pianist, arranger ...

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a melting pot of young people, and that’s reflected in the music of UK garage.’ MJ Cole, UK garage DJ/producer Leading Exponents MJ Cole Roger Sanchez David Morales Armand Van Helden Shanks & Bigfoot Craig David Artful Dodger So Solid Crew Ms. Dynamite UK Garage Style Similar to house, but a more mellow ‘poppy’ sound, often ...

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Classical ideals began to emerge and take shape in musical treatises in the late fifteenth century. One of the most famous exponents of this was Johannes Tinctoris (1430–after 1511), who, in his writings, claimed that music had been reborn in the works of John Dunstaple (c. 1390–1453) and his followers around 1440. Also central to Renaissance thinking about music ...

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write a Missa L’homme armé, a competitive tradition that continued in the sixteenth century. Some of the most prolific composers of Mass settings in the sixteenth century were the Spaniards Morales and Victoria, and, above all, the Italian Palestrina, whose 104 Masses combine technical mastery with expressive power and are considered the epitome of the Renaissance Mass ...