Renaissance+Music

Renaissance music was from the 1400's until the 1600's. It is a European style music written in the Renaissance. The Renaissance (meaning 'rebirth') was a revival of the arts and high culture under the influence of classical music types, which began in Italy in the 14th century, and spread throughout Europe by the end of the 16th Century. Developments in music included an increased respect for the rhythm and the sense of the words, as portrayed by the adoption of a new type of composition in the 1520’s and at the end of the 16th century, the invention of opera Common genres of music found in this period were the mass, the motet, the madrigale spiritual, and the laude.

Timeline of the composers in the Renaissance period. The Renaissance music had made a transition into Baroque music in the early 1600's

Instruments used: Slide Trumpet Cornett Trumpet Sackbut Viol Lyre Irish Harp Hurdy Gurdy Tambourine Jews Harp Shawm Reed Pipe Horn pipe Bag pipe Pan pipe Recorder Transverse Flute Hurdy Gurdy Sackbut Shawm An example of the written music from the Renaissance [|Renaissance Music]