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It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
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- 500-600 tunes established during his reign
- later expanded to 3000
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- Vox principles
- Vox organalis (improvised)
- Parallel
- Oblique
- it examines and illustrates two distinct kinds of "singing together"
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- four line staff
- relative pitch
- sight singing
- "Little Treatise"
- created hexachord
- created solmization
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achieved great success as a prioress and abbess of her own convent and as a writer and composer
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Poet-composers who flourished during the Twelfth Century in the south of France and spoke Provencal.
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• German intellectual who came to Paris to teach around 1280
• Franconian Mensural Notation
• Consonant and Dissonant intervals -
• 1st composer in history to create secular music
• Continued troubadour/trouvere tradition
• 4-voice rondeau
• Cantilena Style -
- associated with Philippe de Vitry
- time
- prolation
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• 140 ballate
• Influenced by the treble-dominated French chanson
• From ballare (to dance), originally a song to accompany dancing
• “Landini Cadences” -
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