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| c. 1190 | Troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras composes the estampie "Kalenda Maya." This is the earliest known estampie melody. |
| 1235 | Roman de la Rose, a lengthy allegorical poem, is begun by Guillaume de Lorris and completed before 1275 by Jean de Meun. The poem includes several descriptions of courtly dancing. |
| c. 1250 | A copy of the Magnus liber organi, containing sixty sacred round dances, is sent from Paris to Florence, demonstrating the influence of Parisian music. |
| The earliest known English instrumental dance is included in Oxford's Bodleian Library: MS Douce 139, a manuscript from Coventry, England. | |
| c. 1275 | Four dance tenors (that is, melodies that could be used to structure new compositions) are copied into Montpellier, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole de Médecine, MS H 196, one of the largest sources of early motets. |
| c. 1280 | Eleven instrumental dances are copied into the Chansonnier du Roi (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS... |
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