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During this time, a lot of music was focused on the church. The music was chanted and written out on large sheets of paper to be sung in churches.
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Guido used staff notation and sight singing,
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One of the most important composers of the Medieval period. She was also the first female composer.
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It replaces Ars Antiqua (old art) and made a major reformation to the way we look at notation for our music.
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Music changed drastically in this era from the era before.
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This was sometimes known as the "Mona Lisa" of renaissance music.
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This was Martin Luther's most famous chorale. It became an anthem for reformation.
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This became a model for present-day textbooks on the subject of counterpoints. it also introduced the Palestrina arch which is featured a lot in this piece.
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This piece is significant for two reasons. It was the first work of music to specify dynamic control and to specify all of the voices in the piece with instruments.
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Bizzare, complicated and overdone music
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The first opera to enter the standard repertory
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This define roots and recognized inversions. It established the triad and 7th chord as prominent. The first to use the term tonic and made it known that V7 to I was the strongest. Established a fundamental bassline.
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Called the most accomplished man in Europr
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Caprice – humorous, capricious work characterized by a
departure from current stylist norm
Dedicated to ‘alli Artisti’ (professional musicians)
Deemed ”unplayable” by many
Caprice no.24 - theme and variations (theme served as basis
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Orchestration:
Strings
2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons
Piccolo, Contrabassoon, 2 French Horns, 2 Trumpets
3 Trombones (first to add these instruments to a
symphony).
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