Difference between baroque music and Renaissance music?

Answer 1

the difference between Renaissance and Baroque music, is that Baroque is

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

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The Baroque Era spanned approximately 1600 to 1750, and followed the Renaissance era of musical style. Baroque music was typically harder to perform than Renaissance music as it was written more for virtuoso singers and instrumentalists, and made more complex use of harmony and rhythm.

Answer 5

First of all Music was a form of Art. second if you ever have questions about the renaissance check this out: http://www.socyberty.com/History/The-Renaissance-Time-Period.105163

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Music in the renaissance was more commonly recognised in church and was rarely played in other circumstances. There were limited genres in the renaissance.e.g. classical and Jazz.

Answer 7

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