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Charlemagne was the Holy Roman Emperor. His idea was to control the church in order to control the empire. He had anywhere from 400-600 tunes and died in 814.
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This was the first method in the western music world to create polyphony. It had parallel motion for perfect fourths and perfect fifths. Some voices were also used with improvisation.
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The innovation here is the hexachord system. This was known as “singing with the hand”. Gamma- Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La. 990-1050
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This tradition originated in France and spread to places like Spain, Italy, and Portugal. First Troubadour was Guillhem de Peitieus. This was vernacular poetic music from 1071-1348 (the Black Death).
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She was most famous for her visions from God. She did many things like write about her visions and compose music. It was very taboo to claim any composition but she did anyways. She lived 1098-1179.
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Most famous for the styles created like Polyphony. The people that were known to work on this was Leonin and Perotin. School was in session from 1163-1250
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Was famous for the Ars Cantus Mensurabilis. The innovation he had was perfect versus imperfect intervals and resolutions. This included the semitone, tritone, and much more.
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Wrote love songs in Cantalina style. He also continued the traditions of the Troubadours. The thing he was most famous for was Ars Nova. He lived 1300-1377
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New Art was concerned about the meters and if they were considered perfect or imperfect. This had to do with duple and triple meters. The Breve was derived from this as well.
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He was well known for his cadence known as the “Landini Cadence”. He had 140 Ballete and believed in the idea of musica ficta. The “hard B became the soft B”. When writing music, he would avoid the tritone at all costs. He lived 1325-1397.