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Renaissance Composer

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Yes. Guillaume Dufay lived from about 1397 to 1474, and the Renaissance era lasted from about 1400 to about 1600.
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It's Carlo Gesualdo - you're right, he had some very interesting ideas on harmony.
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He composed church music and secular chansons. His most famous works are "Triste Plaisir" and "Dueil Angoisseux" ChaCha!
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I assume by "mass songs" you mean simply "masses" or "settings of the Mass Ordinary." In that case, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is a good answer. He wrote more masses than anyone.
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Gregorio Allegri is considered a pioneer composer for presenting an exotic mixture of both baroque and traditional renaissance music. He lived from 1582 to 1652. ChaCha again soon!
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Giovanni Gabrieli, specialized in brass choirs, and was the leading Venetian composer at the end of the sixteenth century.
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Tomas Luis de Victoria was known as the greatest Spanish composer of the time of the Renaissance. He was born in the year of 1548 near Avila in Spain. In the year of 1565 he went to Rome as a singer as well as an organist. Tomas Victoria mi...
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･ Pope Gregory I. All chants came from the Jewish and Byzantine religious chants. A Gregorian Chant is ... ･ t. Popular music of the middle ages was known as secular songs, and was not bound by the church's dictation. ... ･ John Dowland. Jo...
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Thomas Tallis (1510-1585) was an English composer who mainly worked on church music. He was granted rights from England's queen to use the country's printing press, and composed many styles of music.
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William Byrd was a composer of music for many churches in the Renaissance Era. He composed The Sweet and Merry Month of May.
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