Renaissance

1400 – 1600

 

 

 

 

Renaissance means “Rebirth”

 

 

 

 

Composers

Duffay

Josquin

Palestrina

Weelkes

 

 

 

Forms

Mass

Motet

Madrigal

 

 

 

World View

History

Literature

Science

Art

New World

Colonization

Elizabethian Age

Protestant Reformation

Shakespere

Inventions

Printing Press

Microscope

Leonardo de Vinci

Michelangelo

 

 

 

 

Philosophy

 

 

 

Man taking pride in his accomplishments, leans more to his own understanding. Church loses some of its power.

 

 

 

 

Music

Music is mostly vocal. The texture becomes more homophonic.