Posted in: World Music by Fasereo on July 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment
The Renaissance era was a time of great rebirth in art, music, theater, literature and philosophy all throughout Europe. This era was a huge cultural movement. My personal favorite part of the Renaissance was the advances in music.
The Renaissance music changed very much from the Middle Ages.
One of the main different styles of music was Motet, which was a vocal composition primarily during the 14thcentury. Another type of music during the Renaissance was Mass, which was a part of the text of a Roman Catholic set to music, to be sung by a choir. The last Major music kind was Madrigal, a song with parts for several, usually solitary voices, that was popular in England in the 16thand 17thcenturies.
Greensleeves is one of my particularly preferred songs. Greensleeves (a madrigal song) might have been written by Henry the VIII. Madrigal used singing and instruments to perform songs. Madrigal also started secular songs. These songs didn’t have to do with religion. People started to write secular songs because they wanted to explore thoughts other then religion. This intrigued people to have fun with music and people did. Songs weren’t so gloomy now, as they were in the middle ages.
Renaissance music was so different from before, everyone could just love music. People sang more, learned to play more instruments and read music! There was just so much to do and learn in the Renaissance in all topics!
Hi July 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Wow! I liked it!