How women contributed to the medieval music scene
How women contributed to the medieval music scene By Sophie Andrade Could medieval women be musicians? Here are three examples of how they created music in the 13th and 14th centuries. Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was riddled with political strife, natural disasters, and plague. It was a dangerous place to be, and yet, despite the troubled landscape, creativity and musical innovations flourished. At the Notre Dame School in Paris, the Ars Nova was created, bringing to life a form of polyphonic music with a new system of notation, allowing for a wide range of complex rh...
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