During the Renaissance period from 1400-1600, music gained significance among the aristocratic class. Vocal music varied between religious styles like Lutheran chorales, Anglican anthems, and Catholic masses/motets, as well as secular styles like the Italian madrigal and French chanson. Instrumental music included dances, variations sets, and solo pieces to showcase skill on instruments like the recorder, lute, and viola da gamba.

1. RENAISSANCE

2. Renaissance has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period.

3. The music of the period was significantly influenced by: the rise of humanistic thought

4. the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of ancient Greece and Rome

5. the growth of commercial enterprise

6. the rise of a bourgeois class

7. the Protestant Reformation

8. During the Renaissance the music gains significance and is regarded as a sign of sophistication among the aristocratic class. The nobility had to know how to dance and play an instrument. Good musicians were highly regarded because they contributed to give splendor and prestige to the house who served

9. VOCAL MUSIC Lutheranism: choral Religious Anglican: anthem Catholiscism: - mass - motet Italy: madrigal Secular France: chanson Spain: villancico

10. Lutheranism Martin Luther was a German theologian. He regarded music as the most important theology after. He created the choral, simple composition for four voices, homophonic, based on folk melodies and sung in German

11. ANTHEM An anthem is a form of church music, particularly in the service of the Church of England. The words are selected from Holy Scripture or in some cases from the Liturgy, and the music is generally more elaborate and varied than that of psalm or hymn tunes.

12. MASS The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy. Most Masses are settings of the liturgy in Latin,

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14. Motet: the name describes the movement of the different voices against one another. the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service. MOTET

15. VILLANCICO A villancico is a musical and poetic form associated traditional Spain and Portugal. These pieces were popular between the XV and XVIII. The villancicos were originally secular songs with chorus and harmonized several voices. Then began to sing in churches and specifically associated with Christmas. Its name probably has its origin in that they are compositions of a popular nature, sung by villains or inhabitants of the villages, typically farmers and other rural dwellers. They were sung at festivals, originally without specifically religious themes, the main topics of events in the village or region. The genus was later expanded to include issues of various kinds.