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The Renaissance saw the development of homophonic texture in music, a step away from plainchants and the church, and music as a means of expression.

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Is Baroque music Renaissance?

No, the Renaissance period came slightly before the Baroque period. However, a large number of Baroque composers were influenced by Renaissance music.


What does the individual with the saxophone in the center of the picture represent in The Songs Of The Towers?

African American creativity in music and literature during the Harlem Renaissance


What institution supported music in Renaissance society?

The Renaissance was a period in history in which the arts flourished. The church was an institution which supported music in society.


How did the tonality of renaissance music differ from that of medieval music?

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.


In music what is the Italian term for music?

For historical reasons. Music started travelling, so to speak, during the Renaissance. Italy being the country where the Renaissance movement was born, most musical sheets were brought, used, sold etc. by Italians. Moreover, at that period, most eminent composers were Italians.

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What renaissance composer is credited with returning the music of church to the more reverent style of previous composers?

Are you perhaps talking about Palestrina?


How did music relate to the Harlem renaissance?

how did the following relate to the renaissance;music ,literature,and art


How the Middle Ages was a departure from the Renaissance?

Here is a quick answer. The middle ages was different from the renaissance because the renaissance was basicly a time when the arts music and science reawakened and had some advances to it. People were more interested about art, music, literature, and science in the renaissance. During the middle ages it was not as important to the people, so when the renaissance came the arts were kind of reintroduced to the people. The renaissance lasted from about 1300 to 1600.


Use the word Renaissance in a sentence?

The music of the baroque is far better than the music of the renaissance.


What is often missing from Renaissance music manuscripts?

Dynamics and articulation markings are often missing from Renaissance music manuscripts.


How can you use renaissance in a sentence?

There has recently been a renaissance of techno music


How Renaissance scholarship differ from that of previous eras?

It was more secular.


What type of music was popular during Harlem Renaissance?

Jazz was the most popular type of music during the Harlem Renaissance.


What gender sung renaissance music?

Men and women sung renaissance music, but in most cases males would sing


The Renaissance in music occurred between?

The Renaissance era in Western music began in about 1400, in northern Italy.


What has the author Morton Latham written?

Morton Latham has written: 'The renaissance of music' -- subject(s): Renaissance, History and criticism, Music


How do you know if music is renaissance music?

Renaissance music started to use more polyphony than monophonic. It also started to have music in the background, compared to a Capella. The music was used to entertainment and not just for religious purposes.