How Different Genres of Music Influenced Renaissance Period

Renaissance Musical Period
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This paper talks of the Renaissance period and how different genres of music influenced this period. Music art involves a combination of instrumental and vocal sounds for emotional expression or beauty of form. In most Western music, the art is usually according to melody, rhythm, and harmony cultural standards. Two main factors that have been present in all periods of music history and styles include music being conceptual and auditory.. Modern music encompasses a mystifying profusion of styles, especially contemporary ones. Music has evolved since last a thousand years or so, starting from Gregorian Chants to Mozart’s sonatas. Renaissance music brought more polyphony and harmony into music as most composers focused on choral music.[Locke, Ralph P. Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. Cambridge University Press, 2015.]
The history of Western Classical music is in six main periods. The renaissance period comes second and links the medieval era that came before and is followed by the Baroque period. The Renaissance period lasted between 1400-1600AD and was characterized by a significant growth, where music became complex, expressive, and varied.. Composer...