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[Highlighted extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD’ ‘Vocal music in the 16^th century’ ‘Harmonic experiment’]

‘Advances were particularly apparent in venturesome harmonies as chromaticism (the use of notes not belonging to the mode of the composition) sounded the death knell of the modal system.’

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*[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 555]

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