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	Classical composer biographies
		If a composer is not on these pages, there’s a good chance that while I’ve probably heard of them, I haven’t actually heard any of their compositions.
		His first symphony was his graduation piece (composed in 1925), and was well received.
		Composed a large number of concerti, inspiring Bach to the same form.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mn200/music/composers.html (3150 words)

	List of classical music composers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not all composers fit neatly into one and only one category: some, such as Monteverdi, wrote in the style of more than one era.
		See: List of composers for composers of other genres of music.
		See the List of 20th century classical composers, 20th century classical music, and the List of 21st century classical composers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers (168 words)

	Classical Music Composers
		Gives you the same view as 'Composers By Birth' except the composers are separated into their different nationalities.
		This list has been helpful to me over the years, in understanding the big picture and seeing the forest instead of just one tree at a time.
		This is suppose to be a catalog of only the great composers which would be hundreds, as appose to a list of all known classical music composers, which would be thousands.
	www.edto.net /classical_music_composers.htm (195 words)

	Guitar Composers of the Early Romantic Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This page discusses the guitar composers of the so-called early romantic guitar era of the late 1700's and 1800's whose music is known to me, and in my opinion made a contribution to the repertoire.
		The other composers listed here wrote many fine pieces, but often their top pieces did not reach the height of excellence of the others, and their pieces varied considerably in quality.
		Mertz was a prolific composer, although the majority of his works consist of transcriptions and arrangements of classical compositions for guitar solo, guitar duo, or guitar and piano.
	sedna.lunarpages.com /~early2/erg/erg/composers.htm (18380 words)

	Composer Directories - I Write The Music.com
		List of songs whose titles are composed solely of numbers
		List of new age and new instrumental musicians
		Listed below are sound samples from the work of composers and performers promoted on the Impulse pages.
	iwritethemusic.com /composers.html (895 words)

	Renaissance
		Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature.
		Wightman, W.P.D. Science and the Renaissance: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century.
		This page is intended to be a growing collection of links to Renaissance poetry texts (and related resources), with a special emphasis on the English literature of the period.
	www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/renbib.htm (3218 words)

	Renaissance
		Renaissance Studies: "Multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of Renaissance history and culture." Abstracts of articles (since 1996) are publicly available online.
		Renaissance Quarterly: Journal of the Renaissance Society of America; publishes articles and reviews on all aspects of continental and British Renaissance studies.
		Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe: "a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530." So far, covers only selected Italian cities, but useful for this class nevertheless.
	english.edgewood.edu /eng359/renaissance.htm (1525 words)

	Renaissance
		It was sung a cappella and sung in Latin.
		Most of the music of the Renaissance was polyphonic, but something new was being heard.
		Composers began to blend sounds because they were interested in how notes fit together.
	www.empire.k12.ca.us /capistrano/Mike/capmusic/renaissance/renaissa.htm (1059 words)

	Classical Guitar Composers List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The purpose of this list is to provide a succinct reference to composers who have composed at least one published original music for, or being transcribed for, solo classical guitar.
		Each entry of the list consists of the composer's full name, year of birth, year of death (if applicable), and nationality.
		The list can be downloaded for your private use or for non-commercial use with proper reference to this webpage.
	musicated.com /CGCL (186 words)

	Guillaume Dufay: A Bridge To the Renaissance (MUSL 242) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was one of the most important developments in music of the period in that it helped a composer to create a sense of unity in a piece.
		Dufay was an important figure in ushering in the new creative age, the Renaissance, and has become widely recognized for his role in the development of Western music.
		Composers' Biographies and their Works --An alphabetical listing of hundreds of composers, including a brief biography and major works of each.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/dufay.htm (1164 words)

	Renaissance Love Songs
		Although Christine is counted as a "Medieval" poet her poem was set by Gilles Binchois, a "Renaissance" composer, reminding us that no sharp boundary separated these periods and that he could respond directly and immediately to her emotion with powerfully moving music.
		Of all English Renaissance tunes, this is the most familiar, partly because of its modern use for the Christmas carol "What Child Is This?" However, it was a wildly popular tune in its own day, and was arranged in endless different ways.
		This song reflects the keen Renaissance interesting in banking and trade by treating hope (hope of being loved) as a commodity which has just suffered a fall in the market, for the poet's lady has proven false to him.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/love-in-the-arts/renaissance.html (1080 words)

	Talaria Enterprises Renaissance Art Botticelli Raphael Michelangelo venus angel proportion of man pieta, Birth of Venus ...
		In this sculptural interpretation of Botticelli’s Italian Renaissance painting “Birth of Venus”, Venus (Roman Aphrodite) is illustrated being born from a shell based on a well known myth about her birth when Cronus castrated his father Uranus and tossed his severed genitals into the sea.
		In this sculptural interpretation of Botticelli’s Italian Renaissance painting Birth of Venus, Venus (Roman Aphrodite) is illustrated being born from a shell.
		From the notebooks of the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, there is no record of the Mona Lisa model sitting for her portrait.
	www.talariaenterprises.com /product_lists/renaissance.html (1210 words)

	Composers Directory @ I Write The Music.com
		Composer (article) - Google Define: Creates original music that is appropriate for the production.
		List Of Composers Sorted by Age At Death (26K)
		List Of Composers Sorted by Nationality (36K)
	iwritethemusic.com /composersdir.html (343 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Music:Composition:Composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Please list birth year and the title should be the composer's name, last first.
		Composers who lived and worked in the early 20th century, and whose music had an influence on music of the 20th century.
		Composers who wrote music in the second half of the 20th century who are no longer living.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/desc.html (2655 words)

	What Renaissance works had an extended performance history?
		This is an extremely preliminary list of Renaissance works which continued to be performed for several decades.
		The purpose of this list is to highlight the exceptions to this general rule.
		Especially in the latter case, it becomes impossible to distinguish continuing public performance from scholarly appreciation, although there is definitely some indication that the Notre Dame repertory was composed for performance at significant liturgical occasions over the period of some decades.
	www.medieval.org /emfaq/misc/repertory.html (1402 words)

	Larry Krantz Flute Pages: FLUTE Composers List
		The following is a listing of pieces that have been written for the flute by and/or submitted for inclusion in this list by FLUTE list members.
		Duo Fuoco is one of the composer's early endeavors, a petulant, restless work beginning in G minor.
		Fantasie is a free piece full of velocity and complexity, composed with an altered pentatonic scale and some whole tone elements.
	www.larrykrantz.com /fltcomp.htm (1208 words)

	Classical Composers List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		classical composers medieval renaissance baroque preclassical late early romantic period composers 20th century classical composers
		If you have a suggestion for a classical composer that we need to add, please write to us here.
		If you consider yourself an authority on a particular composer - or just a really avid fan -- and would like to act as our principle custodian of the page (contributing content, links, etc.), please contact us for further information.
	www.shopconroe.com /music/classical/cl_mlist.htm (178 words)

	Middle Ages Renaissance Music Styles Composers Medieval Notation Transcriptions Free Downloads Age Times
		There is also the earliest evidence of individual composers, from Leonin and Perotin to Machaut, Landini and Dufay.
		Alberto Gallo pays particular attention to the elaboration of refined techniques of composing, often drawing a parallel with the techniques of rhetoric and poetry.
		This list is also for general conversation and for sharing your own favorite educational resources.
	nicholasacademy.com /marmusic.html (537 words)

	Keyboard recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The subject of this list is early keyboard music, and the survey will be concentrated primarily on Italy and England.
		Other English composers carried on his style for a while, but it is a rather small total output, so this list has little opportunity to grow.
		In many ways, this listing must be viewed as an appendix to the instrumental consort list.
	www.medieval.org /music/early/keyboard.html (399 words)

	Circle's Harlem Renaissance Links
		Painters, sculptors, and musicians were "uplifted" by the popularity of Africa forms of Picasso and Matisse and the adoption of jazz by heralded european composers.
		More than anything else, the Harlem Renaissance was a marker of the shift of the Black intellectuals from the South to the urban North.
		Thus, the Harlem Renaissance expresses a time, an orientation, a spirit, and more than a location, for its representatives can be found outside of New York City; for example, Philadelphia and Chicago both possessed reflections of the Harlem scene.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/0history/harlem.renaissance.html (548 words)

	Classical Composers Composition Music Arts
		active into the early decades of TV, when even commercial networks considered high culture a responsibility, they were the last classical composers with major...
		influential in his personal development as a musician, and in the development of an individual style, are the works of classical composers, particularly that...
		- Inclusive list of fugues written in the 1700's, comprising all the relevant repertory up to date and links to classical musician pages.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/Classical (419 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Classical Composers Database - Listings of classical composers with on-site and remote links to biographies, pictures, music listings, various analyses of style and methodology, and forums.
		Composers - Basics about the major creators of classical (art) music, with terms, historical eras, RAM audio examples, and purchase links.
		Composers of African Descent - A brief discography of classical music by African, African American, and African European composers.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers (802 words)

	The Renaissance Era: Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For this reason, some historians refer to the Renaissance as the Early Modern Era.
		The rich courts and civic governments of the Renaissance supported music to a degree not previously seen.
		The composers of the Renaissance concerned themselves with three different areas of music.
	www.wwnorton.com /enjoy/shorter/renaissance/overview.htm (261 words)

	renaissance composers - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		COMPOSERS of the NAZI ERA -ii- COMPOSERS of the NAZI ERA Eight Portraits Michael H. Kater...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kater, Michael H., 1937- Composers of the Nazi era: eight portraits / Michael H. Kater.
		That Flemish composers ruled Italian music in the early years of the Renaissance is easily proved: the...important Netherlandish composers of the day.) Similarly...
		With the next generation of Venetian composers, headed by Marcantonio Cesti (1623 69) and Pietro Francesco...aria, the chorus gave way to the virtuoso soloist, and the Renaissance interest in antiquities was superseded by a trend toward lofty...
	www.questia.com /search/renaissance-composers (1785 words)

	WRRM: Music of the Renaissance: various composers
		Renaissance Music: links for many composers including Busnoys, Josquin, Agricola, Isaac, Taverner, Gombert, Morales, Tallis, Palestrina, Lassus, Byrd, Victoria, Sweelinck, Dowland, Monteverdi and Praetorius.
		Gimell recordings, mostly of renaissance music performed by The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips, provide their CD release notes in a searchable online database.
		Many of these are fullsome discussions of the featured composers (see list) and their works (list).
	www.music.ucc.ie /wrrm/rencomps.html (146 words)

	Music in the Renaissance \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels.
		From about 1520 through the end of the sixteenth century, composers throughout Europe employed the polyphonic language of Josquin's generation in exploring musical expression through the French chanson, the Italian madrigal, the German tenorlieder, the Spanish villancico, and the English song, as well as in sacred music.
		Inspired by the classical world, Renaissance composers fit words and music together in an increasingly dramatic fashion, as seen in the development of the Italian madrigal and later the
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/renm/hd_renm.htm (1128 words)

	Living Composers Catalog Research Pages - Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries List
		This page is intended to be a simple list of composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
		There may or may not be additional research on each of these composers in our research pages (although links are provided for each of them to the location that this research will be indexed once it occurs - if it is not already there).
		To see this list of living composers on a separate page (more printer friendly - no explanations, banners or navigation tables) go to the Living Composers List page.
	www.baggaleymusic.com /research/ComposersListed.html (563 words)

	List of Baroque composers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth:
		Composers of the Middle Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:
		List of Renaissance composers, as there is considerable overlap near the beginning of the Baroque era
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Baroque_composers (255 words)

	Talaria Enterprises: Museum Store Michelangelo renaissance David sculpture
		This Renaissance sculpture (1501-04) from the Galleria dell' Accademia, Florence faithfully reproduces Michelangelo's masterful depiction of the biblical David contemplating his battle with the giant Goliath.
		David--stoic against impossible odds and faithful to his beliefs--symbolized the essence of civic virtue to the residents of Florence during the Renaissance.
		This self-standing, sculpture adaptation of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece from the Renaissance is a work of art all its own.
	talariaenterprises.com /product_lists/michelangelo.html (343 words)

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