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Early Renaissance Music

This group gradually dropped the late Medieval period's complex devices of isorhythm and extreme syncopation, resulting in a more limpid and flowing style. What their music "lost" in rhythmic complexity, however, it gained in rhythmic vitality, as a "drive to the cadence" became a prominent feature around mid-century.

Births

1400s?: WALTER FRYE = English composer = [died: 1474?]
1410/1425: JOHANNES OCKEGHEM = Franco-Flemish School composer = [died: 1497]
c. 1430: ANTOINE BUSNOIS = French composer and poet = [died: 1492]
c. 1445: LOYSET COMPÈRE = French composer = [died: 1518]
1445 or 1446: ALEXANDER AGRICOLA = Franco-Flemish composer = [died: 1506]
1450: HEINRICH ISAAC = Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer of south Netherlandish origin = [died: 1517]
c. 1452: PIERRE DE LA RUE = Franco-Flemish composer and singer = [died: 1518]
c. 1450/1455: JOSQUIN DES PREZ = Franco-Flemish composer = [died: 1521]
1457/1458: JACOB OBRECHT = Franco-Flemish composer = [died: 1505]
1459: JEAN MOUTON = French composer = [died: 1522]
c. 1460: ANTOINE BRUMEL = French composer = [died: 1512 or 1513]