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The oldest known transcribed melody in Greece
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Music mostly in early church
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Music Theorit; credited with creating a system of precise pitch notation through line and spaces on the staff. Advocated sight singing
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composer of First Morality play; known as Sybil of Rhine; witer, composer, theologian.
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Made in the 12th century to help notate rhythm. Stopped in the 13th century
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Famouos troubadour, most surviving music of 12th century
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Organum purum of Cathedral of Notre Dame
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Poet and Minnesinger, worked in Viennese court. His contempories thought of him as the leading compser of his time
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Master of discant organum at the Catherdral of Notre Dame
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Famous female troubadour
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Monk at Arras
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One of last trouveres. Wrote polphony
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Known as "inventor of new art" French composer, poet, theorist and bishop.
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Leading composer and poet of Ars Nova
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New Art in France. Isorhythm and hocket
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Known for his cadences; virtuoso organist. Blind in early age
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Leading English composer. Created consonant 3rds and 6ths that were popular in Renaissance
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Franco-Flemish, first important Renaissance composer. Used older cadences
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Bass Singer, served 3 Kings, very respected, did not use much imitation
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Secular music became popular. Polyphony became primary texture. 1500s, early versions of homophony
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Considered by Martin Luther to be the "best composer of our time"
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Influenced German music. Court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in Vienna
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Leading composer at the Burgundian
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Made important contributions to large-scale forms and unity. Dutch
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First music prnter and publisher, preserved Renaissance music for us today
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German Theologian
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Complex, continous polyphony, strong advocate of textual expression.
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Worked in Rome and in Paris. Famous for early madrigals
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Flemish, associated with Willaert
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One of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance. At Vienesse and Praque courts
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Became icon of Renaissance music for future generations, Romans style. Responded to the requests of the Council of Trent to reform Catholic Church music.
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over 2000 compositions in all languages
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Leader of Florentine Camerata in the late 1570-90s.
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Pupil to Rorel served the Dukes of Manuta and Parma
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English; Catholic composer witing both Protestant and Catholic in England
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Ahead of his time. Took music to a new style