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Machaut wrote over 30 motets. Some are monophonic, while others reach varying levels of polyphonic complexity. They are all beautiful. Also try Machaut's Italian contemporary Landini. There is very little (I can't think of ANY) music specified for the keyboard from this time. Composers often...

Torrents = piracy = ILLEGAL, which is how I have just reported your question.

The most crucial tip of all: GET A TEACHER!

I have just realised the promise I made myself a long time ago and have finally dumped Bill Gates and his awful Windows platform. I am very happy with my newly-acquired Apple machine EXCEPT for one problem to which I can't seem to find a solution. Because my Windows Office version of Microsoft...

Burning a sound file of any sort onto a CD won't change the quality of the original file. You will find that by playing MP3 files on a hi-fi system, the shortcomings of the compressed MP3 signal will be revealed even more strongly. Most music-playing software you have on your computer should...

There are quite a few works written since the 1950s which could fit your description. Composers have experimented with a wide range of styles and techniques. It's all 'classical' music but some would call this type of music 'avant-garde'.

Don't forget poor old Anton Webern (Austrian), killed by a trigger-happy American GI while accidentally breaking curfew for an after-dinner smoke in the garden in 1945. Both Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett were conscientious objectors (I'm not sure what I think about that). Britten went to...