Parsons Playlists: Renaissance Polyphony to Get Your Brain Going

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

The Ghent Altarpiece: Singing Angels (detail) by Jan van Eyck (1432)

William Byrd – Mass for Four voices

William Byrd – Infelix Ego

William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices

Some Renaissance musical notation

Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium

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


Musicians of the late Renaissance/early Baroque era (Gerard van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623)