1510s in music
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| 1500s 1500s in music The decade of the 1500s in music involved some significant compositions. They were very famous musicians and composers of this time.- Events :... . 1510s in music . 1520s 1520s in music The decade of the 1520s in music involved some significant compositions.- Publications :* 1520: Capirola Lutebook is compiled from the works of Vincenzo Capirola... |
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The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510-1519) involved some significant compositions.
Publications
- 1511: Arnolt SchlickArnolt SchlickArnolt Schlick was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and by 1482 established himself as court organist for the Electoral Palatinate...
– Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.... - 1511: Franciscus BossinensisFranciscus BossinensisFranciscus Bossinensis was a lutenist-composer active in Italy in the 15th century. Although his name suggests a Bosnian origin, this is a point of historical debate. Some experts consider him a Croat and some that he was Bosniak. He lived and worked in Venice...
– Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato.. Libro secundo - 1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
- 1518: The Medici CodexMedici CodexThe Medici Codex of 1518 is a music book prepared for the Pope Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent of the Medici family who was pope from 1513 to 1521....
Classical music
- 1510: RenaissanceRenaissanceThe Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
composer Josquin des PrezJosquin Des PrezJosquin des Prez [Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez] , often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance...
assembled or composed Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the MassOrdinary of the MassThe ordinary, in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies, refers to the part of the Eucharist or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed...
, and it became the most popular of his masses in the 16th century16th centuryAs a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. It is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of the West occurred....
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1510
- Juan BermudoJuan BermudoFray Juan Bermudo was a Spanish composer, music theorist and mathematician.In his Perfecting the perfect instrument 1555, a treatise on playing the vihuela, Bermudo lists the maestro de capilla of the Royal Chapel of Granada, Bernardino de Figueroa, and Cristóbal de Morales as having checked and...
, Spanish music theorist (d. 15651565 in music- Births :* Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music - Deaths :* mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals...
) - Antonio de CabezónAntonio de CabezónAntonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as performer and was eventually employed by the royal family...
, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (d. 15661566 in music- Publications :*Melchior Neusidler – Il primo libro intabolatura di liuto *Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Il desiderio secondo libro- Births :...
) - probable – Loys BourgeoisLoys BourgeoisLoys "Louis" Bourgeois was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century...
, French composer, famous for his ProtestantProtestantismProtestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
hymn tuneHymn tuneA hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part harmony, a fast harmonic rhythm , and no refrain or chorus....
s (died c.15611561 in music- Births :*August 20 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer of early opera *probable – Peter Philips , eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest , the most published English composer in his time.- Deaths :...
) - probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, NeapolitanKingdom of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...
composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 15921592 in music- Publications :*Claudio Monteverdi – Di Claudio Monteverde il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci , published in Venice- Births :*date unknown**John Jenkins, English composer...
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1511
- date unknown – Nicola VicentinoNicola VicentinoNicola Vicentino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard, and devising a practical system of chromatic writing two hundred years before the rise of equal...
, Italian music theorist and composer (died 15751575 in music-Events:*The first performance of a mixed consort in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England.*First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg.*Thomas Tallis and William Byrd granted 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I*Tomás Luis de Victoria...
/15761576 in music- Events :*Pierre-Francisque Caroubel relocates to Paris.*Carolus Luython becomes court organist and composer to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, at Vienna....
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1517
- January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo ZarlinoGioseffo ZarlinoGioseffo Zarlino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning.-Life:Zarlino was born in Chioggia, near Venice...
, Venetian theorist (died 15901590 in music- Events :*October 16 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer of madrigals, murders his wife and her lover.* Year 1590 was the approximate peak year of the late Italian madrigal style, as represented by Gesualdo, Luzzaschi, Monteverdi, Marenzio, Monte and others....
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Deaths
- 1517: March 26 – Heinrich IsaacHeinrich IsaacHeinrich Isaac was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer of south Netherlandish origin. He wrote masses, motets, songs , and instrumental music. A significant contemporary of Josquin des Prez, Isaac influenced the development of music in Germany...
, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)