Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of Renaissance Polyphony curated by Music Library student assistant Ryan (class of 2022).
So here is “Renaissance Polyphony to Get Your Brain Going”:
The Ghent Altarpiece: Singing Angels (detail) by Jan van Eyck (1432)
William Byrd – Mass for Four voices
William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli
Gregorio Allegri – Miserere mei, Deus
And here is a link to a YouTube playlist of all of the works above!
Musicians of the late Renaissance/early Baroque era (Gerard van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623)