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MedievalMusic

Western music from approximately 500 to 1400. Medieval music ranges from monophonic chants to highly complex and layered rhythmical and melodic concoctions. Early Medieval music was learned by ear, but it was in the Medieval era that musical notation made significant developments, first in showing general melodic direction, and later, by way of the innovation of the musical staff, the ability to show more exact musical pitch intervals and the subsequent capability of non-oral transmission of melodies. Rhythmic notation began to develop in the Medieval era as well, opening up new musical possibilities which composers gladly exploited.

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Parents	ClassicalMusic	Traditional Western art music. Though wide-ranging in sound and style, it is largely characterized by its system of staff notation, and often by its musical complexity.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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