Early Renaissance Composers

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Across
  1. 5. Italian master of contrapuntal composition
  2. 7. Best known for melancholy songs, great lute repertoire
  3. 9. Virtually created the Tudor consort and keyboard fantasia
  4. 11. In 1575 with Byrd, secured printing monopoly in England
  5. 12. Called "the divine composer" or "the sweetest swan"
  6. 13. First and Finest melodist 15th century
  7. 14. Friendship with Martin Luther likely suppressed his career
  8. 15. In 1542 met Michelangelo, who wasn't interested in music
  9. 17. First publisher single impression movable type
  10. 18. He is the master of the notes, wrote El Grillo
  11. 19. Worked with Lorenzo de'Medici, "San Giovanni e San Paolo"
Down
  1. 1. Mathematician and Astronomer
  2. 2. Wrote first book on ornamentation for stringed instruments
  3. 3. Established Netherlands as center of music publishing
  4. 4. One of first to specify verbal tempo indication in music
  5. 6. Pioneer of dramatic music, madrigal opera not staged
  6. 8. Was kidnapped three times because of his beautiful voice
  7. 10. Famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England
  8. 12. First known setting of Mass Ordinary
  9. 16. Experimented with polychoral style and instrumentation
  10. 18. Use of pre-existent melody as structure, law degree