Trisha Yearwood - The Song Remembers When

The origin and beginning of the spread of G.-b. due to the rapid growth of homophony in Europe. music at the turn of the 16-17th centuries, with a prominent role in it of improvisation and ornamentation. Until the 17th century many-headed. polyphonic compositions were copied and printed not in the form of a score, but only in the form of parts of performing voices (polyphonic composers even hid the scores of their compositions in order to keep the secrets of their counter-punctual technique secret). To overcome the inconvenience arising from this when learning and performing complex productions, Italian. bandmasters and organists as early as the 16th century began to apply an abbreviated record of the composition.