Renaissance

Table of Contents Dates of Time period: 1400-1600

Important Events: The important event was it getting made and it coming straight from plainsong. More voices and movements became longer and clearer. Also more composers were more interested in showing off than making music.

Important People: William Byrd was the foremost (meaning he was the biggest in that time) composer of the Elizabethan time. He was an organist. He also wrote a couple of nonreligious music pieces and songs accompanied with instruments of same family. Byrd also wrote pieces of music for other instruments. His pieces were made generally for the viols, bowed and fretted string instruments that had to be held higher than usual. [|William Byrd]

Another composer in the renaissance time period named Guillaume Dufay, he was the chief composer of the 15th century, a title that has stayed there forever. He was also dutch. But one thing about him is that he was not the best model for music. But the one thing that he did do is that he tried different things that nobody else dared to do.

[|Guillaume Dufay]

New Styles of Music: Chorale (means that it was a hymn that was sung in a big group of people) was the major style for the Renaissance. The way Chorale was made from the basis of many hymns that are still sung today. Chorale was composed for voices but hundred years later, Bach (a very famous composer/songwriter) would take it and make it his own using an organ. Hymn-a song that is used in church to praise God.

New Instruments: Recorders, Lutes, Viols, Shawms, Crumhorns, and small versions of trumpets and trombones were all instruments used in the Renaissance period.

Shawm:which is made by the mouth piece because the the reeds are vibrating off of each other. [|Picture] [|listen]

Crumhorn: [|picture] [|listen]

Lutes: [|picture] [|listen]

Viols: [|picture]

Hurdy Gurdy: [|picture] [|listen]

Bladder Pipe: [|picture] [|listen]

Rebec: [|picture] [|listen]

Serpent: [|picture] [|listen]

Recorder: picture [|Hypermusic.ca]