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... English in the adoption of new European musical methods , the English continued to work with polyphony in the Renaissance manner , while the Italians were per- fecting monody and the Germans fruitfully uniting mon- ody with their own ...
... English in the adoption of new European musical methods , the English continued to work with polyphony in the Renaissance manner , while the Italians were per- fecting monody and the Germans fruitfully uniting mon- ody with their own ...
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... English as a colony , although the supposed threat of an invasion by Spain , the Catholic enemy , and the conflict between an imposed English Church and the at first decadent Catholicism of the Irish , were further complicating factors ...
... English as a colony , although the supposed threat of an invasion by Spain , the Catholic enemy , and the conflict between an imposed English Church and the at first decadent Catholicism of the Irish , were further complicating factors ...
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... English settlement , improve methods of agriculture , increase the productivity of the land , and stimulate industry and trade . His ultimate goal was to assimilate Irish law and customs to the English system and to make a prosperous ...
... English settlement , improve methods of agriculture , increase the productivity of the land , and stimulate industry and trade . His ultimate goal was to assimilate Irish law and customs to the English system and to make a prosperous ...
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