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ancient artistic aulos B-flat Bach became Beethoven began Brahms called Charles Villiers Stanford Chinese choral church clef composer composition Concerto contemporaries cornetts developed diatonic diatonic scale discant Dorian early Egyptian England English enharmonic existence faburden fact folk-music folk-song French German Gluck Greek Handel harmony Haydn instrument invention Italian Italy Johann John Josquin kithara known later Liszt Luca Marenzio madrigals master means medieval melody ment Meyerbeer modern modes motet Mozart musicians neumes never notation notes octave opera orchestral organ organist organum original overture Palestrina pianoforte pipe pitch Plagal plain-song PLATE played player poems probably produced pupil Purcell Quartet rhythm sackbuts scale Schumann secular semitone shawms singers singing sixteenth century Sonata songs sound strings style success Sumer is icumen sung Symphony tetrachord tion trumpets tune violin vocal voice Wagner Wilbye words writing written wrote