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A guidebook that taught singers everything that they would need to know in order to sing the church liturgy. It created a standard for church musicians to follow.
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It improved rhythmic notation by making the system more detailed, which increased the accuracy for rhythmic notation.
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The legend says that Palestrina wrote the Mass in order to save polyphony from being condemned by the Council of Trent. The work was written to be "reverent in spirit and attentive to the words".
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It was composed in Venice. It was one of the first instrumental ensemble pieces to specify its instrumentation and is one of the earliest works to include dynamic markings for passages.
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It showed the immense popularity of Vivaldi's compositions during the time. Many publishers printed the music at their own expense instead of the composer or patron paying for it.
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This work made Rameau a very famous theorist and was one of the most influential theoretical works written.
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A book that proved that it was possible to play in all keys on an instrument tuned in near equal temperament.
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Under his leadership, the orchestra became one of the finest in Europe.
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