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English composer who was influenced by European music style and used more 3rds and 6ths in harmonies
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First Renaissance composer
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Very respected and prolific composer who was also a low bass
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During this time, secular music became more widespread and gained popularity. Polyphony was the primary texture and melodies were numerous and simultaneous. Most composers wrote masses, motets, and after 1540, madrigals.
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Composer and music theorist who wrote about contemporary music and wrote the first dictionary of musical terms, Diffinitorum musices.
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Invented the printing press
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Most admired Renaissance composer especially by Martin Luther
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Highly recognized Italtian artist famously known for his painting of Mona Lisa
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First music printer and publisher who preserved Renaissance music for us today
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German theologian and composer who was the founder of the Lutheran Church
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Father of text expression
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Last Supper
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English composer who wrote a 40-part motet and eventually an 80-part motet
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Michelangelo begins his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Most composer from the Renaissance
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Became an icon of Renaissance music for future generations
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English composer who composed for Catholic and Protestant church
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Many Renaissance style songs were composed and used in his plays
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William Shakespeare builds the Globe Theatre where many of his great plays would eventually take place such as Hamlet and Macbeth