1400-16001400-1600

Time of advances in science i.e. Galileo Time of exploration i.e. Drake, Cortez,

Magellan and DeSoto Time of Art achievements i.e. Michelangelo

and Shakespeare

Advances in technology

Two line melodies were now being expanded

to 4 lines; using 4 part voices Vocal form now called a motet Music is becoming more important than the

words Famous Renaissance composers were Josquin

Des Prez and Giovanni Palestrina

Sacred Music

Around 1500, many people broke away from

the Roman Catholic Church: Reformation Now music was written for whole

congregations and not just the choir to sing New style was known as chorales Arise in middle class People began moving to cities seeing more

concerts and plays, entertainment The invention of the printing press now

allowed for sheet music to be printed

Madrigrals, songs for small groups without

instruments and repeated choruses; usually about love and were written for special occasions, i.e. feasts, weddings

Secular Music

Polyphonic music for instruments Instrument of choices were the recorder and

the viols in sorts of sizes Groups of these instruments were called consorts

Other popular instruments of the time were lutes, shawms, krummhorns, small versions of trombones and trumpets

Instrumental Music