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He created the hexachord system. The document displays the sight singing system.
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Hildegard of Bingen claimed all work was divinely inspired through visions. Her music often focused on the Virgin Mary, the Trinity, or local saints.
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Ars Nova means new art.
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It's often called the "Mona Lisa" of renaissance of music. It was one of the earliest motets.
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Martin Luther believed that music was a gift from God. He also believed that suppressing human creativity was a violation in the image of God.
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It means the White and Sweet Swan and it comes from the story that a swan sings just before it dies, but because it is a madrigal, it creates a humorous aspect of this piece.
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The work is renowned for its intricate interplay of vocal lines and has been studied for centuries as a prime example of Renaissance polyphonic choral music. Rules for counterpoint include: mostly stepwise motion, dissonances introduced in suspensions and resolved on strong beats. Most leaps are followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction resulting in the "Palestrina arch".
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Made by Thomas Luis de Victoria. He was the first spanish composer to master palestrina's style, yet his music departs from that style in many ways.
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Pian e forte means "soft and loud". It was the first piece of music that used dynamics.
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Known as "over-done", bizarre, complicated.
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This was the basis for teaching tonal harmony.
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This altered the tuning of the keyboard and it allowed for a musician to be able to play 24 keys.
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Haydn was an Austrian composer during the Classical period. Haydn wrote 108 symphonies.
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He was a renowned fencer and French violinist. He was a composer and was a conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris.
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He was the son of Leopold Mozart, and wrote around 600 compositions.
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Don Giovanni was based on Don Juan. It is sung in Italian, sung by a baritone.
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It is called a Surprise symphony because of the sudden loud movement in the second movement. It also ends in a way that people find "unsatisfying".