Composers of the Late Renaissance/Early Baroque Era would have been guys like Heinrich Schutz or Claudio Monteverdi. The ones people have actually heard of show up later in the century than Three Musketeers era. You can also find some church music or some folk music from the early 1600s, but you need to look a bit.
But I think what you're looking for is Hollywood music. Old Hollywood music like Korngold, Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, and Victor Young.
3 musketeers was written in 1844 (Chopin in Europe, "Skip to My Lou" in USA), but was about the 1620's France. Early 17th century France was all about the Lute. Totally the cool instrument - got ALL the ladies (and some of the men) to throw their corsets and the lucky Lutist. Gaultier wrote a nice Lute piece entitled "La Belle Homicide" which made the top ten list. Real goth stuff. Well, more Baroque than gothic, but you get the idea.
Kind of slow by modern standards, and absolutely no words, which was rather typical. Before you could record your voice, singing did not make the top ten because while you could write down music and have another lutist sound pretty close to what you wrote, the voice was totally different.
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Composers of the Late Renaissance/Early Baroque Era would have been guys like Heinrich Schutz or Claudio Monteverdi. The ones people have actually heard of show up later in the century than Three Musketeers era. You can also find some church music or some folk music from the early 1600s, but you need to look a bit.
But I think what you're looking for is Hollywood music. Old Hollywood music like Korngold, Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, and Victor Young.
After a quick visit to Wikipedia:
3 musketeers was written in 1844 (Chopin in Europe, "Skip to My Lou" in USA), but was about the 1620's France. Early 17th century France was all about the Lute. Totally the cool instrument - got ALL the ladies (and some of the men) to throw their corsets and the lucky Lutist. Gaultier wrote a nice Lute piece entitled "La Belle Homicide" which made the top ten list. Real goth stuff. Well, more Baroque than gothic, but you get the idea.
Kind of slow by modern standards, and absolutely no words, which was rather typical. Before you could record your voice, singing did not make the top ten because while you could write down music and have another lutist sound pretty close to what you wrote, the voice was totally different.