More details about each song, by courtesy of Jon Sayles:"SaltarelloAnonymous (14th century), This amazing monophonic dance (arranged and published by Joe Iadone) is one of my all-time favorites, with terrific melodic licks divided by free-form instrumental breaks (cadenzas)Dedicated to my friend Graeme Irwin. Thanks Graeme, for all the years of eMails, jokes, politcal-discussion, frank debate, music sharing and teaching me Geordie! May you find many wonderful new Aussie red wines to uncork in the future.El GrilloJosquin Des Pres (1450 - 1521) - from his "Italian Period": Probably the most important composer before the second half of the 16th century, Josquin is especially noted for the expressive nature of his music, a trait that broke with the medieval tradition of more abstract music. El Grillo imitates the sound of a cricket. It is a "frottola" - a light-hearted secular work in four parts.Exaudi DomineGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (~1525-1594) - Palestrina ranks with Orlando di Lasso and William Byrd as one of the greatest Renaissance composer. A prolific writer of masses, motets and madrigals he assimilated and refined polyphonic writing (as you will hear in this beautiful 4-part motet) to produce blended voices in search of the inspirational.La DisperataVincenzo Ruffo (~1510 - 1587) - a wonderfully wicked fast and muscular three-piece ensemble work with every syncopation I think I've ever played. This is a classic - and goes to my note-worthy Renaissance tunes list.O' RosettaClaudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643). Scherzi musicali (1607). O Rosetta che Rosetta is a part-song "O Rosetta" from the collection of tunes Monteverdi wrote. This selection would be considered late-Renaissance, even early Baroque, but has always been a favorite of mine.Super flumina BabylonisGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (~1525-1594) - a truly beautiful 4-part madrigal that I heard on YouTube sung by a number of wonderful choirs."---The text and the great performance are both by Jon Sayles. You can read more about his work, and listen to the individual performances, at his website: http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm .A big thank you to Jon Sayles for his great work! Please help me share his work further - it deservers to reach a wide audience.Digital version of the painting by courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.This video has been done as a personal project and for non-commercial purposes. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge, the painting and the songs allow for their sharing on Youtube. If that is not so, please send me a message at earlyclassicalmusic@outlook.com and I will act swiftly to correct the situation.