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A music theorist who created and put into practice a notation style with lines and spaces. He also started using syllables for sight singing.
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Wrote the first morality play called the Sybil of the Rhine. She was also a writer and a theologian.
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A style of German literature of lyric and song writing. It deals with topics of courtly love.
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A famous troubadour poet. More of his music has survived its time than any other poet of his time.
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A master of organum purum, a type of chant, in Paris.
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A female poet who wrote the only surviving melody from a woman from her time.
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Wrote a minnesinger melody that is the earliest surviving. Considered a leading composer and poet of the time.
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Wrote 3 and 4 voice organum and was supposed to be a student of Leonin.
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A monk at Arras who was an epic poet, with 23 surviving poems and 13 surviving melodies.
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An epic poet who wrote polyphony. He studied in Paris and wrote musical plays, chansons, rondeaux, and 7 motets.
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Probably a student from England who studied around this time. He was a music theorist, and his writings give us information about Leonin, Perotin, and organum.
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French composer known as the "inventor of a new art." He was also a bishop, and created a new measure notation.
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Leading poet of the Ars Nova who wrote over 400 poems.
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Style that flourished in France in the late Middle Ages.
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Blind from early in his life, he was an organist and also an instrument maker. He has 155 works consisting of ballate and madrigals.
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English composer whose style of 3rds and 6ths became the Renaissance style. Many of his works were destroyed in the English Reformation.
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Franco-Flemish and the first important Renaissance composer who used older medieval cadences.
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Born in Northeastern France, served 3 Kings, and was a bass singer.
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Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.
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Martin Luther considered him one of the best composers of their time. A French composer, it was said that he had no peer in his music.
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Isaac was a court composer for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. He was Franco-Flemish and influenced German music.
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Important composer at the Burgundian court in the Netherlands. He used canon and ostinato a lot.
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A Dutch composer who was a very influential composer in masses in Europe.
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Petrucci was the first music printer and publisher. He made a way for us to have Renaissance music today.
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Founder of the Lutheran Church. He was also a composer and theologian.
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Wrote masses, psalms, motets, madrigals, hymns, chansons, and ricercares. He used complex polyphony that was continuous.
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Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas.
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
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Wrote for Latin liturgies as well as reformed English liturgies. He was English and an organist.
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A Dutch composer who is well known for his early madrigals. He was well-published.
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Flemish composer who wrote 125+ madrigals, 65 motets, 3 masses, 8 Psalms, Magnificats, and 1 Passion.
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A Franco-Flemish composer who mixed homophony and polyphony. He was one of the composers who wrote the most during the Renaissance.
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Mainly wrote liturgical music with a Roman style and reformed Catholic church music.
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The Church of England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope's authority.
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Williams Shakespeare built the Globe Theatre.