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It is also known as plainchant or plainsong and named after Pope St. Gregory the Great. This pope was credited with bringing it to the West.
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It is an early form of counterpoint, which eventually led to polyphony. This type of song had a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony. -
It began to be built as a mosque in the year 784; until recently it was believed that after the appropriation by the Muslim conquerors of the Hispano-Roman basilica of San Vicente Mártir 4 and the reuse of part of the materials, it was reserved for Muslim worship, but more recent archaeological studies dispute this hypothesis.
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At the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II calls upon Christians to undertake a military expedition in support of the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk Turks. It would lead to the conquest of Jerusalem four years later and a concerted effort by Western Europeans to take control of the Near East
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El Cantar de mio Cid is an anonymous epic poem that recounts heroic deeds freely inspired by the last years of the life of the Castilian knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador. The preserved version was composed, according to most current criticism. -
He invented the first printing press to print many bibles and introduced printing to England.
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Sultan Mehmed II conquers the capital of the Byzantine Empire, establishing the Ottomans as a major international power for the next several centuries. -
The picture was created by Botticelli in Florence. The goddess Venus is coming out of the ocean after her birth as an adult woman. -
Dicovery of America by Cristobal Colon -
The War of the League of Cambrai was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 The main participants of the war were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice.
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The madrigal is a composition of three to six voices over a secular text, often in Italian.
Musically, it recognizes origins in the frottola, it has lyrics in the Italian language with secular themes, contrapuntal harmony, and a popular character. -
William Byrd is perhaps the greatest English composer of all time. With hundreds of individual works, Byrd seemingly mastered every style of music that existed during his lifetime, outshining Orlando de Lassus and Giovanni Palestrina.
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The Peace allowed the state princes to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism as the religion of their domain and permitted the free emigration of residents who dissented -
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.