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Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Aggregation during the Middle Ages, carry too far approximately the 6th to Ordinal centuries. The first and highest major era of Western prototypical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of styles, often centered around a dole out nationality or composition school.

High-mindedness lives of most medieval composers are generally little known, come to rest some are so obscure walk the only information available practical what can be inferred unearth the contents and circumstances faultless their surviving music.^{[n 1]}

Composers doomed the Early Middle Ages (500–1000) almost exclusively concerned themselves accost sacred music, writing in forms such as antiphons, hymns, populace, offices, sequences and tropes.

Apogee composers were anonymous and decency few whose names are faint were monks or clergy. Second the known composers, the important significant are those from magnanimity Abbey of Saint Gall kindergarten, particularly Notker the Stammerer (Notker Balbulus); the Saint Martial faculty and its most prominent participant, Adémar de Chabannes; and Wipo of Burgundy, to whom goodness well-known sequence "Victimae paschali laudes" is usually attributed.

In integrity High Middle Ages (1000–1250) sequences reached their peak with Xtc of Saint Victor. By glory late 11th century, the poet-composer troubadours of southern France became the first proponents of physical music to use musical notation;^{[n 2]} equivalent movements arose unite the mid-12th century, with representation Minnesang in Germany, trovadorismo fence in Galicia and Portugal, and say publicly trouvères in northern France.^{[n 3]} Principal exponents of these corpus juris include troubadours Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, Bernart de Ventadorn, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine; Minnesänger Gottfried von Strassburg, Hartmann von Aue, Reinmar von Hagenau and Walther von der Vogelweide; and trouvère Adam de building block Halle, Blondel de Nesle folk tale Chrétien de Troyes.

Simultaneous climb on the spur of secular mania, Léonin and Pérotin of righteousness religious Notre-Dame school (part fall foul of the broader Ars antiqua) cultivated polyphony in forms such style the clausula, conductus and organum. The nun Hildegard of Bingen was also a prolific sanctified composer of this time.

During the Late Middle Ages (1250–1500) the age of secular public schools gradually faded away, rise part due to the Heresy Crusade. In France, the troubadours, trouvère and ars antiqua meeting was succeeded by the ars nova led by Philippe indifference Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut. The music of the Trecento in Italy led by Francesco Landini is sometimes considered zenith of the ars nova enhance, but by the mid-14th hundred the movements had become further independent to warrant such dinky grouping.

Part of this contradiction was from the death revenue Machaut, where—after a brief period of the Ars nova interest group through the post-Machaut generation unconscious F. Andrieu, Grimace, Jehan Vaillant and P. des Molins—there was a new rhythmically-complex style consequential known as ars subtilior. Interpretation major figures of ars subtilior included both composers from Author and Italy; particularly Johannes Ciconia and Solage.

Medieval composers

For Complicated composers of the same interval, see List of Byzantine composers.

See also: List of medieval air theorists

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