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Italian folk-secular polyphony in Europe

Thanks to the spread of counterpoint by Flemish masters and singers had given a international character to the music sacred and profane . This cosmopolitanism favored the dissemination of texts on French chanson . A testimony to the spread and importance of songs in Italy in 1500 you with Ottaviano Petrucci who published collections of chansons (the Odhecaton and other collections). In the last decades of the fifteenth century, polyphonic music is laced with all major languages \u200b\u200bin the national birthing Villancicos in Spain, Lieder in Germany, carnacialeschi songs and tall tales in Italia. Più avanti si imposero anche il madrigale italiano e la chansons. L'acquisizione delle caratteristiche nazionali fu uno degli elementi che più contraddistinse la storia delle polifonie profane del '500: prima e più importante di tutte, quella italiana.