1490s in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1490s.
Events
The Renaissance was in full swing by now, and many new musical forms were being created, including the motet.[citation needed] Music left an emphasis on chanting and simple melodies to polyphony and homophony.[clarification needed] The Renaissance is considered by some[weasel words] to be the birth of modern music.
- 1490
- January – Emperor Maximilian I writes a letter of recommendation for Jacobus Barbireau's visit to the Hungarian Court at Buda.[1]
- 24 October – Johannes Tinctoris petitions Pope Innocent VIII for the title and privileges of doctor of canon and civil law.[2]
- 1491 – After an extended legal disputation, the singer and composer Francisco de la Torre receives a half-prebendary at the Seville Cathedral.[3]
Works
- 1497 – Josquin des Prez – Nymphes des bois
Births
- 1490
- 6 March – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer and organist (died 1546)
- 12 October – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer, singer, and classical scholar (died 1548)
- 1496 – Johann Walter, German composer (died 1570)
- 1499 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish composer (died 1571)
Deaths
- November 6, 1492 – Antoine Busnois, composer and poet of the Burgundian School
- January 28, 1495 – Juan de Triana, Spanish singer and composer
- February 6, 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, composer of the Franco-Flemish School
References
- ^ Rob C. Wegman, "Barbireau [Barbirianus], Jacobus", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Ronald Woodley, "Tinctoris, Johannes [Le Taintenier, Jehan]", Grove Music Online, edited by Deane L. Root (Oxford Music Online, updated 16 September 2010; accessed 15 August 2017).
- ^ Juan Ruiz Jiménez, "'The Sounds of the Hollow Mountain': Musical Tradition and Innovation in Seville Cathedral in the Early Renaissance", Early Music History 29 (2010): 189–239. Citation on 220.