Evolution of Music: Middle Ages to Renaissance

The developmental formation of music has evolved tremendously over the past centuries. “The Five Heartbeats” and “High-school Musical” are great examples of music structures changing; “The Five Heartbeats” would be identified with the middle ages, where else “High-school Musical” would be identified with the renaissance. Sacred music was mostly uprooted in churches, but there’s a difference with the development of sacred music of middle ages and renaissance. The middle ages music was “mostly vocal, and some were instrumental music.” On the other hand, “renaissance music was choral music, scared, and some instrumental music.” Sacred music was consistent with the two, but the role it played was effectively different. The comparison and contrast

Giovanni Pierlugi da Palestrina was a musician during the counter-reformation; he was devoted to the church music. His music gave insight to the counter-reformation. The Protestant Reformation was against Catholic Art, but on the other hand, Counter Reformation was for Catholic Aft and it responded to the protestants allegations. “All forms of Protestantism showed a degree of hostility to religious images.” The hostility to religious images is what led to the Protestant Reformation. Counter-Reformation encouraged the use of religious images. It can still be found within Catholic churches today. “Despite the differences in approaches to religious art, stylistics developments passed about as quickly across religious divisions.”
As you can see, the middle ages and renaissance evolved around sacred music. Sacred music was more widespread throughout the renaissance time than in the middle ages. Priests and men were only allowed to sing in churches, but Hilgard changed that. Along with Hilgard there was Josquin Deprez, a dominant Flemish composer who composed motets, masses. The Reformations of Protestants and Counters had an effect on the style of religious images, but despite the differences of the two, Catholic imagery is still around. Sacred music is still used around the world, so not much has changed but the