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Renaissance, ca. 1430-1600

February 1 – 14:Desprez, Lasso, Palestrina

            VGCM p18-33

GUILLAUME DUFAY

Mass, L'homme arme, motets including Nuper rosarum flores

Secular songs

JOSQUIN DESPREZ

Secular songs, including Mille regretz, El Grillo, etc.

Motets, including Veni sancte spiritus and Absalon, fili mi

Masses: L’homme arme and Pange lingua

ORLANDO DI LASSO

Madrigals and secular songs including "Matona mia cara," "Bonjour, mon coeur," and "Ich weiss mir em n Meidlein"

GIOVANNI DA PALESTRINA

Pope Marcellus Mass

RECORDED MADRIGAL COT IF.CTIONS

(Collegium Vocale Köln, Madrigals, 2 CDs, on Odyssey.)

WILLIAM BYRD

Masses and motet Ave verum corpus