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Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This symbolized the dominance of the church in society during the middle ages, which lead to an increase to the number of tunes written during his reign starting from 300-500 to about 3000 songs.
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It was the first surviving attempt at setting up rules for polyphony in western music
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It is a book written by Guido de Arezzo that was the foundation of how Gregorian chant should be sung and taught in the monasteries. In the book, he discusses the use of parallel organum and free organum and the avoidance of the perfect 5th, and minor 2nd intervals and instead advocating the usage of the major 2nd and perfect 4th intervals. His most important contribution to the work is his instruction on how to use the occursus, which is an ancestor of the cadence.
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They were composers and performers of a type of lyric poetry called Old Occitan
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It was the group of composers who worked at or near the Notre Dame in Paris who helped establish Polyphony as a standard for church music
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He was a German music theorist who was know for dictating that the length of the note should be expressed by how the note is written on the score.
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It was a treatise that was written around 1320 by Philip de Vitry that talked about a new style of music that focused on how the length of notes should be written, the meaning of coloured notes and mensural notation
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This was a group of professional female singers who lived in Ferrara, Italy during the Renaissance
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This composition, written by Giovanni Gabrieli was the first composition to include dynamic markings in the music (loud and soft) and was the first composition written for specific instruments (brass instruments)
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It is not known when it was written. Some scholars say it was written as early as 1683.
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It wasn't published until 1800
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They were composed in two groups. One group of six when he first travelled to London in 1791 and the other set of 6 in 1794-95
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He revised it 4 times before it was fully completed in 1821
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He wrote it between 1834-1835
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The first of the cycle to be premiered was Das Rheingold, and the other operas followed on consecutive days
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Prokofiev was chosen to write the music for the film
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