Why did the Netherlands become the musical centre?
How did geographical situation favor the Netherlands in the struggle
for commercial supremacy?
What circumstances gave their art a general rather than sectional
character?
Compare the Gallo-Belgic and the Netherlands schools.
How did the Organ aid in development?
Who are the most famous members of this school of composition?
What are the special characteristics of each?
What is a _Miserere_?
What is an _Ave Maria_?
What was the Hanseatic League?
What was the contribution of the Netherlands school?
Consult a general history for the events which made the Netherlands so
important at this time.
In selecting a historical epoch to accompany the period of the
Netherlands school and its successor, the Italian school, the central
figure that will be most familiar is Christopher Columbus, whose life
and work covered the early period, the close of the old polyphonic
school dating with Palestrina’s death in 1594, 100 years after the
discovery of America. This hundred years represents the flowering time
of polyphony as an art.