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Italian composer who was a founder of opera. Also a singer, teacher, and instrumentalist.
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Known for using instruments in sacred music. He was an Italian composer.
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Another founder of opera and contributed to using monody and recitative style in Greek tragedies.
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A Catholic English/Irish lute player who wrote pieces for lute and some sacred pieces. He played lute for the King late in his life.
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An English man who wrote plays and poems, he had a hand in building the Globe Theatre, where many productions of plays took place.
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An inventor of the seconda pratica. He was a very important composer in the early Baroque period.
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A group of people consisting of Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, and Vincenzo Galilei, who met to discuss topics relating to the arts.
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An English composer and keyboardist who wrote sacred music for the Anglican Church.
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A European composer who wrote keyboard pieces. He was influential in writing instrumental music.
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A German composer who studied in Venice, Italy. He wrote the first German opera, but it was lost.
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Wrote Roman cantatas, masses, motets, oratorios.
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The first permanent English settlement in North America.
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A singer and composer. She wrote madrigals, cantatas, and arias.
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Francis Bacon published Novum Organum Scientarium which pioneered the scientific method.
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An Italian composer who wrote operas, oratorios, vocal works, and instrumental pieces. He was very influential in this time period.
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A dancer and violinist who brought about French opera and ballet. Although he was born Italian, France claimed him.
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Wrote sacred vocal works, organ works, and instrumental works. Bach had respect for him, as he was a very important organ composer before Bach.
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Wrote masses, magnificats, motets, antiphons, psalms, oratorios, airs, cantatas, operas, and incidental music. He wrote French operas.
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An English organist and composer who wrote instrumental works, sacred works, songs, and duets and trios.
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An Italian composer and violinist who wrote sonatas and concertos in 6 published collections.
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A well-known German composer and organist who wrote a lot of sacred and keyboard music.
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A violinist who contributed a lot to the development of the concerto through his trumpet and string compositions.
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An English composer who wrote songs, anthems, sacred music, stage works, and keyboard pieces.
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An Italian composer whose death ended the Baroque opera. He was a teacher in Naples, Italy,
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One of the most important French composers of this time. He wrote both secular and sacred vocal works along with chamber music and keyboard works.
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An Italian composer who paved the way for Baroque instrumental music. He wrote many concertos and sonatas and had a great influence on orchestral music.
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A German composer who, at the time, was more well-known than J. S. Bach. He had a great influence on concerts in Germany.
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A French composer who doubled as a theorist. He wrote dramatic works, instrumental works, and keyboard pieces.
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A very famous composer who wrote a great amount of sacred music. He was a master of counterpoint and is a musical icon today.
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A German musician who invented the English oratorio. He was greatly respected by Beethoven.
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A keyboard composer who served for royalty in Portugal and Spain. He had a progressive compositional style.
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Isaac Newton published a book containing his laws of motion.
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A German composer and flutist who wrote sonatas, concertos, capriccios, and vocal works.
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A Neapolitan composer who died at the age of 26. His works were romanticized after his death and on of his pieces sparked a war in France.