renaissance music era

rebirth

renaissance means or is the?

1400-1600 AD

the musical renaissance period lasted from?

rebirth

renaissance means or is the?

1400-1600 AD

the musical renaissance period lasted from?

social change

religous music was still ubiquitous in the renaissance period, but the church’s decline in influence meant that composers gained more artistic freedom and were allowed to write creative music for its sake

lied, frotolla, chanson, madrigal, villanico

secular song forms

opera

a combination of theatre and vocal music that would become incredibly popular over the following centuries

italy

where opera was developed

renaissance period

when opera was made

jacopo peri’s dafne

considered by many to be the very first opera

1597/98

an attempt to make the style of classical greek drama was composed around these years