<P> Drums, harps, recorders, and bagpipes were the instruments of choice when performing secular music due to ease of transportation . Jongleurs and minstrels learned their trade through oral tradition . </P> <P> Composers like Josquin des Prez wrote sacred and secular music . He composed 86 highly successful secular works and 119 sacred pieces . Secular music also was aided by the formation of literature during the reign of Charlemagne that included a collection of secular and semi-secular songs . Guillaume de Machaut was another example of a leading composer who continued the trouvere tradition . </P>

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