As in the other arts, the music of the period was significantly influenced by the developments which define the early modern period: the rise of humanistic thought; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of ancient Greece and Rome; increased innovation and discovery; the growth of commercial enterprise; the rise of a bourgeois class; and the Protestant Reformation.
From this changing society emerged a common, unifying musical language, in particular the polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school.
The invention of the Gutenberg press made distribution of music and musical theory possible on a wide scale. Demand for music as entertainment and as an activity for educated amateurs increased with the emergence of a bourgeois class. Dissemination of chansons, motets, and masses throughout Europe coincided with the unification of polyphonic practice into the fluid style which culminated in the second half of the sixteenth century in the work of composers such as Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria and William Byrd.
These musicians were highly sought throughout Europe, particularly in Italy, where churches and aristocratic courts hired them as composers and teachers.
By the end of the sixteenth century, Italy had absorbed the northern influences, with Venice, Rome, and other cities being centers of musical activity, reversing the situation from a hundred years earlier. Opera arose at this time in Florence as a deliberate attempt to resurrect the music of ancient Greece.
Music, increasingly freed from medieval constraints, in range, rhythm, harmony, form, and notation, became a vehicle for new personal expression.
Composers found ways to make music expressive of the texts they were setting. Secular music absorbed techniques from sacred music, and vice versa. Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal spread throughout Europe. Courts employed virtuoso performers, both singers and instrumentalists.
We are going to look at the key features of Renaissance music, including its composers, the typical instruments used, the sacred and secular forms and how it laid the foundations of change for the musical periods that followed. It is used to describe an age of new discoveries and exploration from c. This period was a time of great political and social upheaval — events such as the Protestant Reformation had a huge impact upon the life in the Western world.
There was also an increase in humanistic thought, which challenged the supremacy of the church. It was also a time of great development in music and the arts. Whilst this division has its limitations, it is quite a helpful way of gaining an overview of the period. Early Renaissance music was dominated by the Latin Mass due to the supremacy of the Catholic church. As a result, the sacred music was mostly polyphonic masses and motets in Latin for use in church.
Modal counterpoint was the dominant composition technique probably due to its close relationship with liturgical plainchant. Although there was a steady movement away from the church as humanistic thought increased, churches remained very important places for training musicians and singers. As the period went on and the Protestant Reformation gathered pace, music was written for use in Protestant churches — i.
Through class I have learned several important influences in music. The most significant composer in my opinion was Ludwig van Beethoven. I feel his works broadened music and took it to a whole new level. He wrote a lot of operas during this period which of course made him much more popular. Some of the pieces from this period of his life include string quartets of Opus 20 and the farewell.
The Romantic Era was an artistic and scholarly evolution, which originated in Europe at the end of the 18th century.
This era is best known for its emphasis on emotion and individualism. Throughout this time, fantasy and mystery took over the arts. Other trends throughout this time were the interest in nature and an interest in the bizarre cultures of the past. The popularity of music was soon growing and evolving. They created a worldly despair so vivid and touching that it was hard to believe that the song was written by a year-old teenager.
Being a trio-minority-African American, gay, and open about his sexual orientation, Strayhorn lived under pressure and had his own. New ideas in art, mathematics, astronomy, politics, literature, science, philosophy, and religion were developed and advanced. Even though Europe was going through a harsh time in the beginning of the Renaissance, it was the rebirth of art, education, and culture for Europe. Europe was going through a harsh time in the beginning. Aaron Copland broke musical compositions into different categories.
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