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Most significant invention. Music and books were now available in large numbers especially for the Mass
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Literally means "rebirth"
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Most composers are Fraco-Flemish or from the Netherlands
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Europeans were intrigued by the supposed power of ancient music
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used four voices (a capella) and instruments from the same family
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First to publish music on the printing press
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First great Renaissance composer
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Christppher Columbus sails the ocean to find America
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Greatest composer of the 1500s
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Most important genre of music at that time
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The Catholic Church becomes corrupt; indulgences
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Mass become obscured; in Latin, hard to understsnd the performers, and polyphony too complicated
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was a singer, composer, and educator in the power of music. wanted the congregation to be a part of music in the Mass
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Magellan sails around the globe
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Composed by Luther; first Mass in the vernacular language; allows congregation to sing, outlines the Roman Mass
