Renaissance music for a group of instruments and/or voices will typically consist of a 4-5 line staff, with the main melody frequently appearing on the top line, or shared and echoed throughout a piece by other lines. There were a wide range of styles and genres. Unlike later time periods, composers did not specify which instruments should cover which lines. They were merely arranged according to range i.e. soprano, alto, tenor, with bass on the bottom etc. It was common for a 'consort' of instruments to be used - so you'd have different sizes of all the same type of instrument such as recorder or crumhorn etc. It was also common in later periods to have a small mixed consort of all different types of instruments. Queen Elizabeth I was fond of what is now considered a mixed/broken consort with lute, bandora, flutes/recorders, and viol da gambas. The Lute (between 6 and later 8-9 course varieties) was extremely popular, and played highly technical improvised melodic lines within mixed consorts, as well as solos and vocal accompaniments. Some historians will obsess over the 'rules' used for church music during the renaissance, but any perusal of the actual music itself will reveal that rules were made to be broken. Church music was frequently very rigid in its use of dissonances and accents, but secular music was alive and well everywhere else with rude songs, lively dances, and plenty of freedom of expression, just as it is now. People haven't changed - only the styles.
This space is too small to elaborate adequately, but Baroque music is closer to modern music in style and harmonic structure, though its use of form was more rigid than now, and what was considered novel experimentation with chord structures and resolutions may sound familiar to us now or be considered part of modern standard practice. Most people will hear ascending/descending minor sequences and instantly recognize them as baroque in style. The general aesthetic for performance changed during the early 17th c. For example, right-hand lute technique changed from parallel-with-the strings and thumb-under (for producing round, bell-like tones) to more perpendicular like a modern guitar and often made use of fingernails for producing a more cutting tone like a harpsichord. The lute also expanded in size during the baroque and split off into larger, more elaborate instruments such as the theorbo until it was phased out by the harpsichord. Composers began specifying which instruments should play which lines, so that musical scores begin to look very familiar to modern musicians. Through practice, a style evolved so that the melody and bass lines became more important, with other lines merely filling in harmonic structure, rather than all lines being of equal importance and sharing and echoing the melody. A system of chord notation (figured bass) was also developed, similar in intent to modern jazz musicians' use of chord charts and fake books for improvising appropriate accompaniments.
During the Middle Ages, music went from being entirely melodic, or with very simple polyphony, such as parallel organum, to being fully contrapuntal. When it became contrapuntal, it gave rise to a wild new sort of syncopated, dissonant music that had never been heard before. This happened at about the beginning of the Late Middle Ages, during which time, the music became more refined.
As things moved from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, there was further refinement of the music. This included the widespread use of purely instrumental music, which was regarded as very innovative.
It was during the Renaissance that the first theorists understood well tempering, and applied it, producing the first formalization of the laws of harmony. Though it took until the lifetime of J. S. Bach to realize the full implications of this, the bottom line was that it became possible to change key without sounding horribly out of tune. This was demonstrated by Bach, when he wrote the Well Tempered Clavier, which cycled through all the keys.
A musical phrase is a group of notes in music. A musical period is a period of time of music, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern
The Renaissance era in Western music began in about 1400, in northern Italy.
Baroque music nearly always contains a harpsichord. The string family are the main family in Baroque music, meaning that string instruments play the melody. The only other instruments usually featured in Baroque music were early versions of the trumpet and the clarinet. There was no piano in Baroque music.
Secular Music
Baroque was before the Classical period from the 1600s-1700s. Some composers include Bach, Telemann, Pachelbel, Purcell, Vivaldi, and Handel. Many woodwinds and strings, imagine dancing in a castle, that would be baroque music. The harpsichord was a very popular instrument at the time. The Baroque music style followed the Renaissance style, and made more complex use of harmony and rhythm. It was typically harder to perform than Renaissance music as it was written more for virtuoso singers and instrumentalists. There was a great deal of counterpoint, and the fugue was a popular form for composers.
Chamber music is locked up. Baroque music needs to be fixed.
No, the Renaissance period came slightly before the Baroque period. However, a large number of Baroque composers were influenced by Renaissance music.
Before Baroque was the Renaissance era.
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The music of the baroque is far better than the music of the renaissance.
the late renaissance, and was a key composer in the transition to Baroque music
Baroque Music was to evoke emotions in people and make them feel scared, sad, or whatever the goal was. Renaissance Music was to sound as professional and traditional as possible without any emotion but happy and surprised at how good it sounded.
By the late Baroque period instrumental music was commonplace and there was an emphasis on depicting string emotions but with strict rhythmic, dynamic, and metric rules. All of those things had just begun to develop in the late Renaissance. Also, the Baroque period had Opera.
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Some similarities between medieval and Renaissance music would be the type of notation used (the type developed by the end of the medieval period was used in the Renaissance, too.) also the cantus firmus(using a given melody to compose a polyphonic work)was still used but maybe more freely. The forms, fixes such as the rondeaux, viralaie and ballades were still used up to a certain point in the Renaissance. its mostly the change from focussing on the technical side of music in the medieval period to making music for expression and meaning in the renaissance.
The baroque era was full of cantatas when the toccatas or no voice movements were predominant in the classical era.