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Social/Musical identity:
male female
courtesan composer theorist singer instrumentalist patron
actor/actress audience amateur courtier bourgeois professional
child adolescent adult apprentice journeyman master
beginner advanced student expert choir boy/girl novice monastic

Milieu:
court city/urban village rural monastery
cathedral local/native traveler foreigner outsider (religious minority/restricted group)

Education:
general education music as a liberal art philosophies of education
music as a social skill music as a source of income literacy
Teaching of composition:
chant rhythm proportions modes counterpoint composition
Teaching of performance:
lessons apprenticeship household instruction fairs repertory improvisation ornament
Music in religious practice:
organ chaplain monastic congregation educational aspects of religion
Music in formal education structures:
grammar school university choir school/maitrise Lutheran schools finishing schools

Materials of music:
music prints treatises student notebooks performance guides scores/tablatures
manuscripts instruments marginalia non-music books images textbooks

Flourished (Dates for the people, the encounter, the treatise, etc.):
medieval 1450s 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s
1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s
1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Geographic region discussed:
General (no specific area or more than 3 areas)
Ancient World
British Isles France Germany Iberia Italy
Switzerland Low Countries Eastern Europe Scandinavia Americas Other

Illustrations/primary source type:
ms illuminations woodcut sculptures notation and scores
treatise extracts legal/financial documents contracts letters/diaries
wills manuscripts incunabula (early printed books) dedications
Illustrations:
lesson book instrument teacher




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