About Renaissance music
Renaissance music is a music genre in the 1400s. It is usually classed as a form of classical music, Renaissance art and music of Europe.
Among the best-known names in the style are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Jacob Obrecht, Oswald von Wolkenstein and John Bull.
Renaissance music has given rise to 3 subgenres on this site, such as Franco-Flemish School, Venetian polychoral style and Contenance angloise.
From Wikipedia
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ars nova, the Trecento music was treated by musicology as a coda to medieval music and the new era dated from the rise of triadic harmony and the spread of the contenance angloise style from the British Isles to the Burgundian School. A convenient watershed for its end is the adoption of basso continuo at the beginning of the Baroque period.
Genre family tree
Parent genres (↑) and subgenres (↓) of Renaissance music.
- ↑ classical music
- ↑ Renaissance art
- ↑ music of Europe
- ↓ Franco-Flemish School
- ↓ Venetian polychoral style
- ↓ Contenance angloise
Key artists
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Orlande de Lassus
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Jacob Obrecht
- Oswald von Wolkenstein
- John Bull
Related genres
Opera
1600s · Europe
Chamber music
form of classical music composed for a small group of instruments
Sonata
1600s · Europe
Baroque music
1600s
Cantata
1600s
Fugue
contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation
Madrigal
secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque e
Overture
instrumental introduction to any musical piece
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What is Renaissance music?
Renaissance music is a music genre in the 1400s. It is usually classed as a form of classical music, Renaissance art and music of Europe.
Where and when did Renaissance music originate?
Renaissance music originated in the 1400s.
Who are famous Renaissance music artists?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Jacob Obrecht, Oswald von Wolkenstein and John Bull.