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Wipo of Burgundy was a famous Priest, poet, and composer of the Medieval era
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Guido of Arezzo was a music theorist who was known for creating a system of precise pitch notation through lines and spaces on a staff.
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The Anno Domini calendar is a calendar that is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, with AD counting years from the start of this epoch and BC denoting years before the start of the era.
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a Roman writer and statesman who was known for his "De institutione musica (The Fundamentals of music, early 500s)."
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The compass is a magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions.
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Gunpowder is a black chemical explosive that consists pf sulfur, carbon and potassium nitrate. It was invented by Choe Museon.
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Hildegard von Bingen was a Medieval composer who was known for writing 77 melodies, morality play, books,poetry, and paintings.
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The Black death was a bubonic plague that killed a large percentage of the population. It occurred in Eurasia and North Africa.
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Dona di Niccolo di Betto Bardi was a famous Italian sculptor of the Renaissance Era.
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John Dunstable was an english composer who was influenced by the musical style in Europe.
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Guillaume Dufay was the first Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance era. He is known for his church music and secular chansons.
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Johannes Ockeghem was a famous composer of the Renaissance Era. He attended the Franco-Flemish school and was considered the most influential composer between Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez.
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There were two types of musical genres of the Renaissance era, Sacred (motets, masses, and hymns) and Secular (frottola, madrigals, chansons, and poetic pieces).
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The Renaissance style included the rise of the madrigal and dances and Counter-reformation (Catholic church).
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Popular dances of the Renaissance era were Pavane, Saltarello, Allemande, Galliard, and Ronde.
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Musical elements of the Renaissance era include new melodies, simple rhythms, harmonies( modality and church modes), Homorhythm, and Strophic and Binary forms.
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Johannes Tinctoris was a composer and music theorist who was known for writing contemporary music and inventing the first dictionary of musical terms (Diffinitorum).
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Josquin des Prez was a French composer of the Renaissance Era. He was considered the central figure of the Franco-Flemish school.
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Heinrich Issac was a Netherlandish composer who was known for writng motets, masses, songs, and instrumental music.
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Leonardo da Vinci was a famous Italian artist and engineer of the Renaissance Era who was most known for his painting of the Mona Lisa.
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Adrian Willaert was a Netherlandish composer and founder of the Venetian school.
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Thomas Tallis was an English composer who was known for writing settings of the preces and responses, the litany, and a complete service "in the Dorian mode."
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Jacques Arcadelt was a Franco-Flemish composer known for composing secular vocal music.
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Cipriano de Rore was a Franco-Flemish composer who was mostly known for writing madrigals, as well as, motets, masses and chansons.
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Phillip de Monte was a Flemish composer who is known for his sacred music and madrigals.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer who was known for writng more than 105 masses and 250 motets, a master of contrapuntal composition.
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Orlando di Lasso was a Flemish composer who was known for writing 530 motets, 175 Italian madrigals and villanellas, 150 French chansons, and 90 German lieder.
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William Byrd was an English composer who was known for writing a wealth of music for the virginals, Fantasias, Pavans and Galliards, the fashionable paired dances of the time, and several song variations.
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Tomas Luis de Victoria was a famous Spanish composer of the Reanissance Era.
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Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist who was known for his sacred music, including massive choral and instrumental motets for the liturgy.
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Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, singer, and organist who was known for his madrigals.
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William Shakespeare was a famous English playwright, poet, and actor of the Renaissance Era. Some of most famous works include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
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Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest who was known for composing secular music and sacred music. Also, he is most known for developing opera.
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John Farmer was an English composer of the English Madrigal school who was known for his madrigals.
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Thomas Weelkes was an English composer and organist who was known for writing madrigals, anthems and services.
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Girolamo Frezcobaldi was an Italian composer and organist who was known for his keyboard works.
