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Charlemagne took great interest in church music and caused it to flourish in his time. He appreciated why the music was attached to the worship and laid the groundwork for musical culture in the region.
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This describes the first surviving attempt for rules for polyphony. This mostly described how voices should move together.
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One school of poets that invented a kind of lyrical poetry that contained intricate meter and rhyme with a romantic strain.
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Guido of Arezzo is credited as the inventor of modern musical notation. His text Micrologus was the second most widely distributed text on the matter.
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Hildegard was a medieval mystic who was a major composer for the church actually writing down the works she wrote.
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A group of composers working at the Notre Dame Cathedral from about 1160 to 1250.
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Franco of Cologne was a German music theorist who proposed the idea of note duration being determined by appearance, not by context.
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Creator of the first complete polyphonic Mass.
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A treatise written about new changes in music. This Change was marked by the abandonment of rhythmic modes and increased use of smaller note values.
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A major user who helped propel the Trecento syle.
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Moveable type allowed for music to be spread much easier
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This is known as Josquin Des Prez's final mass. It follows The standard mass setting, but uses the cantus firmus method through the Missa Pangue
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Ein feste burg is one of the most popular hymns with Lutherans. Luther paraphrased from the book of Psalms
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This was the piece that brought Arcadelt to fame as a composer. He moved away from dense polyphony and made his music clearer to hear.
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This mass was freely composed, not following any cantus firmus or parody. According to legend, this mass convinced the catholic church, after the Council of Trent, to not ban polyphony.
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This was a group of female musicians who traveled Ferrara, Italy, from 1580 to 1597.
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This instrumental piece was written Giovanni Gabrieli. this was the first piece of its time to call for specific instruments as well as specific dynamics. The piece was written for the St. Marks Basicilla in 1597
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Written by Monteverdi
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Uncertain as to when it was written and first performed.
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A set of 12 Concertos for stringed instruments
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The first publication to standardize the modern theory that we teach today
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Father of the string quartet
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Composed in 1741
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Composed between 1804 and 1808
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Left with the first two movements, fragments of the third and a sketch of the finale
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Composed between 1822 and 1824
Premiere May 7 1284
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Written and premiered 1830
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Written 1830-1832
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written 1834-1835
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Composing began in 1841
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originally published in 1844, but a chapter was added and it was re published in 1855
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27 January 1874
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Premiere Date
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20 November 1889
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15 December 1893
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