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Music for the purpose of religion, courting, weddings civic ceremonies, dancing, and entertaining. Mostly monophonic style that used instruments.
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A music theorist who invented a system of precise pitch notation using lines and spaces. Along with that he also created the sight singing method we use today (do re mi fa sol la ti do).
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Composer of 1st morality play. Also known as the Sybil of the Rhine as well as a composer, and famous prophet.
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A famous troubadour poet. Has the largest amount of surviving music of the 12th century.
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Master of organum purum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
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A famous female troubadour who holds the only surviving melody from a female troubadour.
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A famous poet and Minnesinger who worked for the Viennese court. Wrote the earliest Minnesinger melody.
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Trouvere who wrote in several genres and forms.
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One of the last trouveres, He wrote polyphony and studied in Paris.
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Credited for calling the name Ars Nova.
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Known as the inventor of new art to most. He was a composer, poet, theorist, and bishop.
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Brought on by a new style in France and Italy.
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The leading composer and poet of Ars Nova. Had many important innovations that revolutionized music.
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A poem in 1316 by Gervais du Bus which inspired over 100 pieces of music.
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Known for his cadences and for being a virtuoso organist despite being blind from an early age. He also made instruments.
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A leading English composer which created a new style of 3rds and 6ths that became the Renaissance style. Many of his works were destroyed during the English Reformation.
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Franco-Flemish composer who is known as the earliest renaissance composer through using medieval cadences.
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Bass Singer who served 3 Kings. Was an important teacher who didn't use imitation in his music.
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Burned on the steak by a tribunal in Rouen, France.
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Music Theorist that published Liber de arte contrapuncti.
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Martain Luther called him "The best composer of our time" who was to have no peer in music.
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Franco-Flemish composer who influenced German music. Was a court composer for Maximilian the 1st of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Leading composer in Burgundian court. Loved to use cannon in most of his works.
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Constantinople's capital falls to the Byzatine Empire. Causes major conflicts in central Europe.
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Made important contributions to largescale forms and their unity. Very important composer to Europe and is Dutch.
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The 1st to print and publish music. This preserved renaissance music for today.
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Johan Tinctoris(1435-1511) says in his Liber de arte contrapuncti that there is a rebirth of art music.
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German theologist and composer. Also founded the Lutheran Church.
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A very strong advocate of textual expression. Served as an Italian composer and teacher.
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Muslims banished from what is seen as Christian land.
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Christopher Columbus signs contract with the Spanish to find "Indies" also known as India.
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The test fails and he swears off flight.
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Composed a motet for 40 voices.
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An English organist who taught Byrd and wrote for Latin and English liturgies.
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Martin Luther leaves the church to establish Protestantism.
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A Dutch composer who worked in Rome and Paris. He is famous for his early madrigals and his 7 voice masses.
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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting in the Vatican is put on display.
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Flemish composer who was associated with Willaert.
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Worked in Viennese and Prague Courts. A very religious Franco-Flemish composer who used poly and homophony. Known as one of the most prolific composers in the renaissance.
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An icon of the Renaissance and future music using the Roman style.
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Did compositions in all languages for a price.
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A Itialian organist, composer, teacher, and uncle to Giovanni.
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Leader of the Florentine Camerata in 1570-1590. Also a critic, composer, playwright, and composer
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Pupil of de Rore and served the dukes of Mantua and Parma. Used text declamation.
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Henry the VIII declares himself head of the church of England.
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Catholic church asks composers to stop writing secular tunes in sacred music.
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An English composer who wrote for Catholic and Protestant. Known as the greatest english composer of his time.
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A Spanish composer that brought the Roman style to Spain. Composed mostly sacred music and known as the greatest Spanish composer in the renaissance.
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The leading composer of madrigal music. Served for Rome, Ferrara, Florence, and Warsaw.
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An English composer who contributed to the development of madrigal music. Very important for music publication and printing.
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Known for Chromaticism and being a leading composer in the style of the madrigal.
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Started advance into more Early Baroque style.
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An English organist who had an excessive drinking problem.
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Romeo and Juliet performed and published in 1597.