RENNAISANCE PERIOD Sung with the absence of

musical accompaniment
• From 1400-1600 increased
innovation and discovery; the Can used to express feelings that
growth of commercial cannot express in words
enterprises; the rise of
a bourgeois class; and Form of prayer
the Protestant Reformation. • MOTETS
From this changing society
emerged a common, unifying A polyphonic choral work set to
musical language, in particular, a sacred Latin text to other than
the polyphonicstyle (this means the ordinary of the mass
music with multiple,
independent melody lines Performed in capella
performed simultaneously) of
• A CAPELLA
the Franco-Flemish school,
whose greatest master This period also known as
was Josquin des Prez. “Golden Age of A’capella, the
unaccompanied choral music
RENNAISANCE comes from the word
“renaitre” which means rebirth, revival Musical Instruments
and recovery
• Lute
• Liturgical church-based still
remained in this era.

• Composers learned to adopt

secular (non-religious) musical
forms
• Drone
• Imitative

• MADRIGALS

• A secular polyphonic work for

small group of unaccompanied
singers

• Most artistic genre of secular • Haut

music and are using in Italian or
English

• A piece of several voices set to a

short poem, usually about love.

• The music of Madrigals tries to

express enclosed lines and • Cornet
sometimes individual words of a
well-known poem

• MASS

Form of sacred composition

Imitation (entrance) is important

features
• Sackbut • Irish Harp

• Tabor

• Hurdy-Gurdy

• Organs

• Gittern

• Viol

• Mandore

• Lyre