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Boethius - Joan of Arc's death
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Birth and Death dates
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Narrative poem, Roman de Fauvel, written to the King of France as a warning. Monophonic pieces such as Latin chants, secular songs but 34 of them are motets. Many with text denouncing the morals of clergy or referencing political events. Leading to Isorhythm (equal rhythm). Tenor is longer, rhytms more complex, whole line moves slowly in comparison to upper voices. isorhythmhelped composers and singers to grasp the music and commit it to memory
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English defeat French at Agincourt - Thomás Luis de Victoria's death
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Ein feste burg ist unser Gott translates to: "A mighty fortress is our God"
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Il bianco e dolce cigno, translates to: "The white and sweet swan"
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-published in 1567
-Palestrina's style was the first in history of western music to have been consciously preserved, isolated and imitated as a model for sacred polyphony.
-Captured the essence of the sober, conservative, elegant, expressive style of the counter-reformation.
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translates to "O Great Mystery"
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-divided choirs
-Sacrae Symphoniae translates to "Sacred Symphonies"
-series of contrasting sections
-double chorus motet for two groups of four instruments with organ accompaniment
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Baroque summed up the delightfully flamboyant, theatrical, and expressive tendencies of seventeenth century to describe the music of the age.
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Many passages from L'Orfeo parallel those from L'Euridice.
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First Public opera house opens in Venice
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Nine collections of his concerto's were published in Amsterdam, L’Estro Armonico being one of them. Vivaldi was immensely popular, especially in North Europe.
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Traité de l’harmonie was published right after Rameau settled in Paris. Traité de l’harmonie means Treatise on Harmony.
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The middle voice states the subject alone, beginning on the tonic, emphasizing the dominant and subdominant, returning to the tonic.
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Symphony concerts were given by Concerts des Amateurs which became one of Europe's finest Orchestra's. Chevalier de Saint-Georges is a Violinist in the Orchestra, the Composer and a swordsman.
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