This composer was famous as an organ virtuoso during his lif…
This composer was famous as an organ virtuoso during his lifetime. He never traveled outside of his native country, Germany, and spent the last decades of his life in Leipzig as the cantor of Saint Thomas’s church and choir school.
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The most important composer of his day, this French musician wrote the best-known work of medieval music, the Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady). He was equally esteemed as a poet and his reputation in French literature is considered equal to that held in English literature by his slightly younger counterpart, Geoffrey Chaucer.
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What is the term for the interval that comprises the first and eighth tones of the major and minor scales? These tones are quite similar because the frequency of vibration of the higher pitch is exactly twice that of the lower.
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