Chanticleer takes its gospel and Renaissance music on a national concert tour this fall, performing in more than 25 cities through December.

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Later the Portuguese transmitted European Renaissance church music in the 16th century before Japan was closed to most Westerners.

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Instead he was interested in the polyphony (separate lines of music intermingling) first of the Italian renaissance composer Palestrina, and then the English composers of the 16th century.

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