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A treatise for music during the Medieval period detailing a four-line staff system and methods for teaching sight singing.
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A treatise written by French composer Philippe de Vitry that detailed an early method of notating rhythm.
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A six-voice mass composed by Palestrina said to be developed to demonstrate that text could still be understood clearly with multiple voices and to avoid condemnation by the Council of Trent. Palestrina's style exemplified by the mass is considered a guideline for what sacred polyphonic music should be.
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A work written for an ensemble of instrumentalists at the Church of St. Mark in Venice. The work is representative of early instrumental music being written to be performed and enjoyed by itself without accompanying dance or text, as well as the instrumentalists themselves being the center of performances.
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L'Orfeo was an early Baroque opera by Monteverdi which portrays the story of Orpheus and uses text painting and dissonance to represent the characters' emotions.
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One of his collections of concertos published in Amsterdam. The music Vivaldi presented in his concertos was exemplary of stylistic changes of the time.
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A book containing short compositions written in each key intended for keyboardists to develop technique.
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A treatise written by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau that became the basis for teaching harmony to those interested in how to apply it in compositional techniques.
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Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges was the director of a group of the best musicians in the area and often composed works to be performed with the group during his tenure.
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