1. 1400-1600

2.   Time of advances in science i.e. Galileo  Time of exploration i.e. Drake, Cortez, Magellan and DeSoto  Time of Art achievements i.e. Michelangelo and Shakespeare Advances in technology

3.   Two line melodies were now being expanded to 4 lines; using 4 part voices  Vocal form now called a motet  Music is becoming more important than the words  Famous Renaissance composers were Josquin Des Prez and Giovanni Palestrina Sacred Music

4.   Around 1500, many people broke away from the Roman Catholic Church: Reformation  Now music was written for whole congregations and not just the choir to sing  New style was known as chorales  Arise in middle class  People began moving to cities seeing more concerts and plays, entertainment  The invention of the printing press now allowed for sheet music to be printed

5.   Madrigrals, songs for small groups without instruments and repeated choruses; usually about love and were written for special occasions, i.e. feasts, weddings Secular Music

6.   Polyphonic music for instruments  Instrument of choices were the recorder and the viols in sorts of sizes  Groups of these instruments were called consorts  Other popular instruments of the time were lutes, shawms, krummhorns, small versions of trombones and trumpets Instrumental Music

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