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(1542-1623) a prolific English composer who wrote motets, madrigals, masses, and keyboard music.

Monophonic liturgical chant in free rhythm, not measured

The progression of logically and exactly ordered events through time.

(1410-1497) a Franco-Flemish composer known for imitative polyphony and credited with extending the bass voice into its lower register.

An instrument that allows a musician to accurately establish the speed of a beat by grouping them in units of beats per minute.

Musical material of interest that is the most important and memorable, involving the succession of pitches that fall into units, one after another, of completeness and can contain emotion and meaning for the listener.

A regular pattern of beats grouped together in similar and recognizable units.

More than one pitch sounding simultaneously

Anything that has the ability to produce a pitch.

The first seven centuries of the Medieval Age (400-1100).