The Medieval Music of Cyprus
The Cyprus changes their hands in numerous times prior to the medieval period, and this was the important outpost of the Christianity and ...
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Cyprus changes their hands in numerous times prior to the medieval period, and
this was the important outpost of the Christianity and the western European
civilization during the crusades. The Island’s top as a cultural capital of
Europe that occurs from the period of 1359 to 1432, during which the top, Pierre
I de Lusigan made a three-year travelling around the Europe, and that bring
with him an associate of the musicians that impressed Charles V in Rheims very
much that he make a donation of 80 francs in gold to them. On his coming back
to Cyprus, Pierre brought with him the French Ars Nova and later, the Ars
Subtilior. The French musicians became well known in the Cyprus and the city of
Nicosia and became the capital of the Ars Subtilior style. Also, Janus I de
Lusignan saw the Cypriot music change into its own pattern of music, his
daughter, Anne de Lusignan also brought a paper after her marriage to Louis,
Count of Geneva, which contained 159 folios with over two hundred polyphonic
work on both sacred and secular, the paper is now a part of the collection of
the national Library to Turin.
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