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  The start of the Medieval Era
Slow changes in life, culture, and dissemination of knowledge - 
  
  The views of music: Divine (Music came from God) and Cosmic (music was created by the movements of the stars and planets
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  "Dark Age",
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  -Diastematic Notation
-Credited with inventing the staff - 
  
  
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  -Founder and abess of the convent at Reperburgs, Germany
- Famous for her prophetic power and revelations
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  -The first composer in Ars Nova (France)
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  Most famous composer and poet of that time
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  -Music Theorist, composer, and poet
-Most famous Italin composer of the 14th Century - 
  
  Known as the "Black Death"
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  -Famous Italian Artist
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  -English but wrote musical style Europe
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  -First Renaissance Composer
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  -Very respected and prolific
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  Captured the Arts, Science and Religion
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  -Composer and Music Theorist
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  -Most revered Renaissance Composer
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  -Prorific German Composer
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  -Italian Polymath
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  -Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
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  German Religious reformer
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  -Father of text expression
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  -Important English Composer
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  One of the earliest Italian Madrigal Composers
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  -Most prolific composer of the Renaissance
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  -The most famous composer of the Renaissance
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  -Important Catholic English Composer
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  -Carries on Palestrinas style while working in Spain
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  -Leading composer of intrumental ensemble music
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  -Famous English playwright
-Helived into the esarly Baroque but many Renaissance Style songs were composers - 
  
  -Famous Scientist
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  -English composer, organist