Renaissance Composers

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  1. 4. Famous for basing madrigals on people he murdered
  2. 5. of Bingen, A nun, writer, philosopher, healer, and composer rumored to have received visions from God in the 1100’s
  3. 8. Composer of masses, motets, and chansons in the Renaissance, one of the most famous of the age
  4. 9. Composer, poet, bishop and music theorist in the early 1300’s
  5. 12. First significant composer of polyphony, also composed Gregorian chant in the 1100’s
  6. 13. Member of the Burgundian compositional school, worked for the Medici family
  7. 14. Father of Counterpoint
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  1. 1. English madrigal composer
  2. 2. French trouvère, known for writing both monophonic and polyphonic music in the 1200’s
  3. 3. Member of the Venetian compositional school, ushered in Baroque period
  4. 6. English composer specializing in isorhythms
  5. 7. French composer and poet, has the most remaining works of composers in the 1300’s
  6. 10. English composer of High Renaissance music and madrigals
  7. 11. Student of Leonin, part of the Norte Dame School of polyphony in the late 1100’s and 1200’s