A Patter Song is a comical song in a fast tempo with tongue twisting lyrics.
Instrumental music throughout the Renaissance was closely associated with vocal music. Only at the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and at a few other chapels with choirs of competent singers, was polyphonic church music consistently sung unaccompanied. Elsewhere the organ, lute, viols, or other instruments accompanied, doubled, or substituted for voices, and organists developed a huge repertory of music for use in church services, including preludes, interludes, and arrangements of liturgical melodies. In secular music, the lute remained popular both for solos and in ensembles; clavier instruments were coming into wider use, and hundreds of pieces were written for chamber music ensembles.
El Greco is the nickname of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, painter<span>, sculptor and architect of the </span>Spanish Renaissance.
He lived and worked in Toledo,Spain for the duration of the Renaissance,from 1577 to 1614.
<span>El Greco used color to communicate emotion and so </span>incorporated Mannerist characteristics of the Late Renaissance into his paintings.
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter
