Johannes Tinctoris (jan 1, 1435 – jan 1, 1511)

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a Renaissance composer and music theorist from the Low Countries. He published lots of writings on music. He has a "Messe L’Homme Armé" to his name.

1. Most of the fifteenth-century music studied in the course of music history was
not heard by the average European of the period.
2. The theorist Tinctoris provides a list of the composers of note during his
lifetime.
a. Tinctoris did not think any music written more than forty years before
1477 was worth hearing. He preferred Ockegham and Busnoys.

Tinctoris set out three musical styles and associated them with genres.
a. Magnus, great (high-ranking) = Mass.
b. Mediocris, middle = motet.
c. Parvus, small (low-ranking) = vernacular chanson

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