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Evolution of music from the Medieval Era
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A German Benedictine abbess and polymath as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and a medical practitioner during the high middle ages.
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A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a plectrum. (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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The first known significant composer of polyphonic organum.
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The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes. (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes (This instrument has not been invented on this date, but it became most notably used in this time period.)
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A composer from France associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader ars antiqua musical style of high medieval music.
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A French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and may also have been the author of the Ars Nova treatise.
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A French Composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music.
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Originally a French composer from the Franco-Flemish School. He is known for being one of the first few to master the use of polyphony in renaissance music.
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Composed by Josquin des Perez
Year Composed: 1520 -
Composed by Josquin des Perez
Year composed: 1520 -
An italian Renassiance composer as a well known represintative of the Roman School of Musical Composition.
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An English composer greatly refered to as not only as Brittian's best Renassiance composer at the time, but the best composer overall.
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Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Year composed: 1562 -
Comes from Venosa, as a prince and well known composer. He is best known for including chromatic influences in his music not yet heard of, but seen again in 19th century music.
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An Italian composer that is well known for his contribution to the pioneering of the opera. Not only was he a composer, but also a string player, choir maser, but also a priest.
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Composed by William Byrd
Year composed:1585 -
Composed by William Byrd
Year composed:1590 -
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Year composed: 1608 -
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Year composed: 1610 -
Composed by Carlo Gesualdo
Year composed: 1611 -
Composed by Claudio Monteverdi
Year composed: 1643