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Pierre Attaingnant

Until the start of the fifteenth century in Europe, the monasteries had a monopoly over the copying, illuminating and preservation of spiritual text messages and church music. Hence, until Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type around 1450, hardly any secular, traditional, and well-known music been around in manuscript. Music …

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