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Most composers were Poets. Most music was used in church.
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Philosopher, Statesman, and Music Theorist. Wrote The Fundaments of Music (500s)
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Music Theorist, creator of a system of precise music notation. Advocate of Sight-Singing using Ut,Re,Mi,Fa,Sol,La
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Writer, composer, and theologian. Antiphon; O quam mirabilis est
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Famous Troubadour, many of his music still survives. Can vei la lauzeta mover
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Master of Organum Purum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. (organum duplum)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9m9k_ZHEo]
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Poet and Minnesinger. Wrote the earliest surviving minnesinger melody. (Under der linden)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXv7I-Zav8]
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Master of Discant Organum at Notre Dame.
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Female Troubadour. The only surviving melody from a female troubadour.
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Monk at Arras, Trouvére.
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One of the last trouvéres. Wrote Polyphony, studied in Paris.
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The inventor of ars nova. French composer, poet, bishop, and theorist. Established a new tradition of mensural notation.
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The leading composer and poet of the Ars Nova. (Je vivroie liement)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ti59NdbG1c]
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The Ars Nova in France focused on new compositional techniques: Isorythm and Hocket.
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Virtuoso Organist, blind from an early age. Most celebrated musical personality of the trecento. (Ecco la primavera)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXtzNxzOYs]
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More than 20 million people died in Europe
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The leading English composer. Created a new consonant style 3rd - 6rd that became the Renaissance style.
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The first important Renaissance composer. Franco-Flemish.(Nuper rosarum flores)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dV5b8AuLHg]
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Polyphony was the primary texture in most genres. Secular music became more popular. Motets, masses, and Madrigals.
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French, Bass Singer. (Qu'es mi vida, preguntais)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqGSCoUxxk]
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Johannes Guttenberg invented the mechanic Printing Press
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French, considered to be the best composer of their time. (Miserere mei Deus)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pBEHBXmKk]
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Franco-Flemish (Missa de Apostolis)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyvb_bd5Vqc]
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Leading composer, at the Burgundian court. Very famous on his day.
(O salutaris hostia)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pSBCJ2l_Pw] -
Dutch, an important composer of masses in Europe. ( Beata es, Maria)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPqV2mMA9g]
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First music printer and publisher
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German theologian and composer. Founder of Lutheran Church. (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6k8DFb8fWs]
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Continuous Polyphony, studied with Jean Mouton.
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Christopher Colombus was an Italian explorer and navigator who discovered the Americas with the support of the Catholic Kings
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English organist, taught Byrd. Wrote English and Latin masses.
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Dutch, worked in Rome and Paris. Famous for his early Madrigals and his 3 to 7 masses.
(Il bianco e dolce cigno )[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITlmDJ9-Hk] -
Flemish, worked in Ferrara and Parma. Associated with Willaert(O Sonno)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTO02Ev-IeU]
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One of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance. Mixed Polyphone and Homophony.
(Peccavi super numerum arene maris)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIzztuWnxA] -
Become an icon of the Renaissance, Contrapuntual Liturgical music.
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Most versatile and prolific composer of the 16th century. More than 2000 works in different languages.
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Italian organist, composer, teacher.
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Italian critic, poet, composer, and playwright.
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Influenced Monteverdi, Pupil of Rore,
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English, Catholic composer writing Catholic and Protestant music in England. (Mass for 4 voices)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeT2HWpwc4]
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Spanish, the greatest Spanish composer of the Renaissance. Continued Palestrina's Roman-style in Spain. (O Magnum Mysterium)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRPEJkoEstc]
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The leading madrigal composer of the late 16th century. Influenced the English Madrigal. (Veggo, dolce mio bene)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1uWVdWJ_gc]
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English composer and theorist. Contributed to the creation of the English Madrigal.
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Neapolitan Prince of Venosa. Known for his Chromaticism.
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Ahead of his time took music into a new style to Seconda Practica
(Magnificat)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajAq0Yd-s4] -
English organist.
(O Care, thou wilt despatch me)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZobIf8KBcH4]
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