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The west half of the Roman Empire fell.
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Umayyad Caliphate sieges the Byzantine empire.
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Frankish king who expanded Frankish empire.
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Developments in notation-- Guidonian notation with lines representing notes and clear pitches, and the Guidonian hand, and solmization using the first syllables of 'Ut quaent laxis.'
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Anonymous, responsorial/gradual. Emphasizes certain words, very long chant.
-Gregorian Chant
-Lydian mode
-Monophonic
-Melismatic
-Latin language [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=TEQw2BufNj8] -
Anonymous, office hymn. Strophic form, longer melody.
-Gregorian chant
-Dorian mode
-Monophonic
-Syllabic
-Latin language -
Anonymous, office antiphon. No reciting tone.
-Gregorian chant
-Dorian mode
-Monophonic
-Syllabic
-Latin language -
Anonymous, office/psalm tone.
-Gregorian chant
-Dorian mode
-Monophonic
-Syllabic
-Latin language -
Break between Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Composer of organum music in the Notre Dame school, musician and poet. Credited with Magnus Liber Organi
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Trobairitz who composed 'A Chantar,' the only surviving trobairitz song set to music. Five of her works survive today. Was Occitanian.
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Comtessa de Dia, troubadour song.
-Monophonic
-Syllabic
-Occitan language -
Perotin, Organum Quadruplum
-Notre Dame school
-Polyphonic
-Melismatic
-Latin language -
Anonymous, Motet. Discant style
-Polyphonic
-Syllabic
-Latin language -
First step to English constitutional government.
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Poet-composer in the Notre Dame school. Expanded on Magnus Liber Organi, four-part music. Composed Viderunt Omnes as an organum piece.
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Anonymous, canon/rota. Six voices, pes.
-English polyphony
-Polyphonic
-Syllabic
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Musician and poet in the Ars Nova. Wrote a mass ordinary, but also many secular motets. Over 140 of his works survive, which he collected in an illuminated manuscript, as well as portraits of himself. Worked at the Reims cathedral from 1340 until his death.
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Bad weather and crop failure across Europe.
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Guillame de Machaut, organum quadruplum, motet. Similar to courtly love in that nature is compared to a beautiful lady.