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”:
![Singing Angels - Van Eyck](https://i0.wp.com/blog.richmond.edu/parsons/files/2021/04/Singing-Angels-Van-Eyck.jpg?resize=500%2C280)
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!
![The Concert - Honthorst](https://i0.wp.com/blog.richmond.edu/parsons/files/2021/04/the-concert-honthorst.png?resize=584%2C348)
Musicians of the late Renaissance/early Baroque era (Gerard van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623)