Adam De La Halle And Ars Antiqua Time Period
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Life Summary
Adam de la Halle is often referred to as the greatest of the long succession of
post Medieval musicians. He was a poet, musician and innovator of the earliest
French theater. He became famous for his use of polyphony and his theatrical
productions. Adam originally trained for the cle ....
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.... is only one melody line, but it may be played by
two or more instruments. Many of the songs that were originally monophonic were
easily transformed into homophonic by add extra voices or instruments.
Polyphonic is the type of music we hear today. Polyphonic is when there is a
melody line accompanied by harmony. A considerable amount of Adam de la Halle's
polyphonic work was designed for plays. One of Adam's manuscripts contains the
oldest known existence of the sharp sign. In 1872 his mu ....
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