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not much harmonic structure besides the favored:4ths,5ths, and 8ths. seconds and sevenths were also popular
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very conjunct and generally stays within a 6th or octyave. uses maioly the 8 church modes: dorian, hypodorian, phrygian, hypophrygian, lydian, hypolydian, mixolidian, hypomixolydian. Melismas!!!!!!!!
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Music Theorist. credited for creating a system of precise pitch notation with the lines and spaces on a staff. he advocated a method of sight singing using syllables(ut, re, mi, fa, so, la).the earkiest and best treatise composition of chant and polyphony was called Micrologus
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composer of the first morality play; Known as the Sybil of the Rhine; writer, composer, and theologen; she was highly sought after
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Famouse and possibly the best of the troubadour poets, more of his music survives the 12th century than most.
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master organum purum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
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Famous femal Troubador that left us the only surviving melody by a female troubadour. her birthdate is not know.
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minnesinger and poet; who worked in the vennese court and wrote his earliest survuving minnesinger melody; considder the leading minnesinger composer by his contemporaries
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Master of descant organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame and a supposed student of Leonin. he wrote 3 and4-voice organum and his identity is speculative
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Trouvere that wrote several genres and forms and a monk at Arras;23 poems and 13 melodies surviving
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One of the last trouveres and wrote polyphony aswell as studied in paris. wrote chansons, musical plays, rondeaux, and 7 motets
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French composer Known as the "inventor of new art", theorist, poet, and bishop that established the new
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leading poet and composer of the Ars Nova and his importance and innovations are extraordinary; has written over 400 poems, 23 motets,19 lais, 42 ballades, 33 virelais, and 22 rondeaux
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Know for his cadences and virtuosity on organ, all while being blind by early age. he is most celebrrated musical personality of the trecento , and an instrument maker. he has written 155 works, mostly ballate and madrigals
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was the leading English composer that created new consonant style of thirds and sixths that became the renaissance style. had many works destroyed during English reformation
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the first important renaissance composer ; used medieval cadences. wrote 7 masses,28 mass sections, 90 motets, 15 antiphons, 27 hymns, 87 chansons, 22 motets, and 13 isorythmic
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Bass singer, served 3 kings, and was well respected. did not use imitation. Important teacher.
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flowing with melismatic nature and uses of wider leaps for textual expression more conjunct than disjunct. top line often had melody
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progressions began focussing of thirds and sixths, full triands appeared but were not studied. counterpoint became huge during this time and homorythm aswell
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considered by martin luther to be the best composer of his time and the master of the notes. he was said to have no musical peer
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franco-flemmish composer that influenced German music. he was a court composer to the holy roman emperor Maximillian I in Vienna, also served in Florence
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leading composer in the burgundian court, very faqmous in his day, frequent use of cannons and ostinatos. preffered low sonorities
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German theologen and composer;was the founder of the lutheran church. has written his writings and hymns
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Dutch; worked in rome and paris;famous for early madrigals and his 3 to 7 voice masses. wrote volumes of madrigals, masses and chansons.
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flemmish composer that worked in ferrera and parma . has written 125 madrigals,65motets, 3 masses, 8psalms, magnificats,1passion.
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at the viennese and praug courts; religious;mixed polyphony and homophony; one of the most prolific of the renaissance. wront over 1000 madrigals, 38 masses, 319 motets, 144 sacred madrigals, and 45 chansons.
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itialian organist, comoser and teacher; uncle of giovanni;worked in venise;pupil of Willaert; versitile and innovative. Known for masses,motets, psalms, vocal concerti, madrigals, keyboard and instrumental works.
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pupile of de Rore; served the dukes of manuta and parma;text declamatio was important to him; influenced montiverdi. wrot 15 volumes of madrigals, motets, and hymns.
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spanis sacred music composer that studied in rome and was one of the influential composers from spain of the time. he wrote 20 masses, motets, magnificats, hymns, and many liturgical pieces
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leadin madrigal composer of the late 16th century; worked in rome; ferrara, florence, and warsaw. influenced the english madrigal. wrote 9 books of madrigals and 75 sacred motets.
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ahead of his time and took music into a new style. wrote 8 books of madrigals, vespers, 13 operas, not all of which survived.(more enfluental in the baroque era
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an English organist. alcoholic. known for madrigals and anthems