Famous composer of baroque period

By the middle of the 15th century, the royal palaces and the great houses of the noblemen had usurped the Church as the single most important influence on the course of music (in , Henry V of England employed more than 30 voices in the Chapel Royal while the Papal Chapel had only nine).

One by-product was the closer relationship between secular music and the music of the Church, a cross-pollination which benefited the development of both.

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Renaissance period composers

The musicians who passed through the Burgundian court disseminated its style and learning to all points of the European compass.

The most noticeable advances during this period were the increased freedom composers gave to their vocal lines and the difference in the treatment of the texts they set.

Previously, words had to fit the music; now the reverse was the case and this is no better illustrated than by the work of one of the next generation of composers to become renowned throughout Europe, Josquin Desprez.

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