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51History of music — Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying wildly between times and places. Scientists now believe that modern humans emerged from Africa 160,000 years ago. Around 50,000 years ago these humans began to disperse from Africa… …
52Pérotin — ( fl. c. 1200), also called Perotin the Great, was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony. He was… …
53Anonymous IV — is the designation given to the writer of an important treatise of medieval music theory. [Richard Taruskin, in the Oxford History of Western Music has insisted that the designation apply only to the treatise and not to the author. However,… …
54Clausula — In Roman rhetoric, a clausula was a rhythmic figure used to add finesse and finality to the end of a sentence or phrase. There was a large range of popular clausulae. Most well known is the classically Ciceronian esse videtur type. In late… …
55Loyset Compère — (c. 1445 ndash; August 16, 1518) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the… …
56Conductus — In medieval music, conductus (plural: conductus) is a type of sacred, but non liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices. The word derives from Latin conducere (to escort), and the conductus was most likely sung while the lectionary was… …
57Meistersinger — For the opera/music drama by Richard Wagner see Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868). Hans Sachs, leader of a famous 16th century Meistersinger school in Nuremberg A Meistersinger (German for “master singer”) was a member of a German guild for… …
58Franco of Cologne — (fl. mid 13th century) was a German music theorist and possibly composer. He was one of the most influential theorists of the late Medieval era, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform music notation permanently: that the… …
59Karachi Grammar School — Infobox School name = Karachi Grammar School imagesize = caption = motto = Indocti Discant Lucerna Meis Pedibus established = 1847 closed = type = Private affiliation = district = grades = president = principal = head of school = dean = faculty …
60Old Hall Manuscript — Folio 12v of the Old Hall Manuscript contains the decorated opening to a Gloria by Roy Henry (probably King Henry V). The Old Hall Manuscript (British Library, Additional MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of… …
