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One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third and its inversion, the sixth (in the Middle Ages, thirds and sixths had been considered dissonances, and only perfect intervals were treated as consonances: the perfect fourth the perfect fifth, the octave, and the unison).
Renaissance Chansons is mainly for those European songs which were extensively developed by many composers or were used (e.g. as cantus firmus) for mass settings, in the period 1400-1600. Pages in category "Renaissance chansons"
Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...
M. Mass (music) Mensural notation; Miserere (Josquin) Missa ad fugam; Missa Caput; Missa cuiusvis toni; Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin) Missa Di dadi; Missa Gaudeamus
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) [citation needed] periods, although revisited by some later European composers. [1]
The term lute song is given to a music style from the late 16th century to early 17th century, late Renaissance to early Baroque, that was predominantly in England and France. Lute songs were generally in strophic form or verse repeating with a homophonic texture.
The music of Florence is foundational in the history of Western European music.Music was an important part of the Italian Renaissance.It was in Florence that the Florentine Camerata convened in the mid-16th century and experimented with setting tales of Greek mythology to music and staging the result—in other words, the first operas, setting the wheels in motion not just for the further ...
This includes the songs of chansonnier, chanson de geste and Grand chant; court songs of the late Renaissance and early Baroque music periods, air de cour; popular songs from the 17th to 19th century, bergerette, brunette, chanson pour boire, pastourelle, and vaudeville; art song of the romantic era, mélodie; and folk music, chanson populaire ...