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What is Renaissance music?
Renaissance music is an European music between 1400 to 1600, which is the Renaissance.

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 * Renaissance allowed musician to create and discover their own style of music, which allowed them to abandon the ways of the Medieval Era.
 * Different instruments were played and new instruments were invented such as clavichord and virginal.
 * Music were mostly written and played for the church.
 * The distinctive music of the Renaissance were __polyphonic__ and __madrigals__.
 * The primary forms for sacred vocal polyphonic were __masses__ and __motets__.
 * __Sacred music__ were important, but __secular music__ were becoming popular.



Vocabulary:

 * “**polyphony:** music consisting of several (two or more) melodic lines, each having individual significance and independence.”
 * “**madrigal:** a name of uncertain derivation for two types of early vocal music, one of the 14th, the other of the 16th century, both of Italian origin. The 14th century madrigal is in a fixed form, consisting of two or three short stanzas.”
 * “**mass:** the central service of the Roman Catholic rites.”
 * “**motet:** the most important form of early polyphonic music.”
 * “**sacred music:** music that was specifically written for use in church services.”
 * “**secular music:** is non-sacred music that developed in the Middle Ages."

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