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- The Contenance angloise, or English manner, a distinctive style of musical polyphony, developed in fifteenth-century England. It uses full, rich harmonies...
- capacité, tant pour les liquides que pour les matières sèches, dont la contenance sera celle du cube de la dixièrne partie du mètre. English translation:...
- developed some distinctive forms of music, including Celtic chant, the Contenance Angloise, the rota, polyphonic votive antiphons, and the carol in the...
- musicians also developed some distinctive forms of music, including the Contenance Angloise, the rota, polyphonic votive antiphons and the carol and the...
- Franco-Flemish School built off the harmonic principles in the English contenance angloise, bringing choral music to new standards, particularly the m****...
- the medieval to the Renaissance periods. The central proponent of the Contenance angloise style (lit. 'English manner'), Dunstaple was the leading English...
- new era dated from the rise of triadic harmony and the spread of the contenance angloise style from Britain to the Burgundian School. A convenient watershed...
- genre of his time. Like Binchois, Du Fay was deeply influenced by the contenance angloise style of John Dunstaple, and synthesized it with a wide variety...
- September 1026) Henri (17 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009 – 8 January 1079), married Count Baldwin V of Flanders Robert I...
- Franc praised Binchois and Dufay for following Dunstaple in adopting the contenance angloise ("English character"). The Second generation (1450–1485), with...