| Changes in music at beginning of Baroque Era |
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| composers began writing pieces, such as madrigals and motets, for effect and with a new simplicity and new resources |
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| Reasons for attack against madrigals |
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| childish, artificial, the many voices couldn’t focus or express feeling strong enough, choir singing counterpoint diluted strong emotions |
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| new style of solo singing, half music and half recitation, lead to opera |
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| sixteenth century;semichoirs |
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| devided into low and high of three or four voice parts each, would alternate and answer or echo each other. homophony crowded out polyphony |
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