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  2. Medieval music - Wikipedia

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    Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.

  3. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    In Middle Ages (10th-16th centuries) was for indoor instrument made up of 4-12 small bells, hung from a bar and struck with hammers. [20] Beginning 12th century, may have had "large wooden key installed" to make playing easier and to help play bigger bells. [20] Depicted in small sets (4 to 5, 8 to 9). [21] Latin, western tradition from church

  4. Ars subtilior - Wikipedia

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    Fallows, David. "Ars nova" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2. Gleason, Harold, and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Music Literature Outlines Series I. Bloomington, Indiana. Frangipani Press, 1986.

  5. Trope (music) - Wikipedia

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    These added ideas are valuable tools to examine compositional trends in the Middle Ages, and help modern scholars determine the point of origin of the pieces, as they typically mention regional historical figures (St. Saturnin of Toulouse, for example, would appear in tropes composed in Southern France).

  6. List of medieval composers - Wikipedia

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    Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. [1] The first and longest major era of Western classical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of styles, often centered around a particular nationality or composition school. The lives of most ...

  7. Ars antiqua - Wikipedia

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    Ars antiqua, also called ars veterum or ars vetus, is a term used by modern scholars to refer to the Medieval music of Europe during the High Middle Ages, between approximately 1170 and 1310.

  8. Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - Wikipedia

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    It is founded on a digital archive of images of European medieval and early to high-Renaissance polyphonic music ranging from complete manuscripts to fragments. [4] The collection, created by the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London , [ 5 ] includes metadata for all manuscripts from 800 to 1550 A.D., and most of those ...

  9. Crusade song - Wikipedia

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    Crusade songs were popular in the High Middle Ages: 106 survive in Occitan, forty in Old French, thirty in Middle High German, two in Italian, and one in Old Castilian. [1] The study of the Crusade song, which may be considered a genre of its own, was pioneered by Kurt Lewent. He provided a classification of Crusade songs and distinguished ...