| Term | Definition |
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450-1000 |
Earliest notated gregorian chant manuscripts |
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1000-1300 |
Troubadours and trouveres, Hildegard of Bingen, School of Notre Dame |
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1300-1450 |
Guillaume de Machaut Notre Dame Mass |
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1450-1500 |
Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria...Virgo Serena |
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1500-1600 |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass |
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1500-1600 |
Thomas Welkes, As Vesta was Descending |
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Gregorian Chant |
Melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment |
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Organum |
Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more addition melodic lines |
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Leonin and Perotin |
Among the first notable composers known by name. One of the first to use notation. |
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Renaissance motet |
polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than ordinary of the mass |
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Renaissance madrigal |
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem |
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