How Did Musi Music Influence The Development Of Renaissance Music

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” Bob Marley. Music has been around for many years, since the dawn of time. Music has grown since its early stages, it has evolved into the various different genera’s we listen to today. There have been many different kind of music for different eras in history. One of the early periods of music was the Gregorian Chant, which dated all the from 900 A.D – 1300 A.D, to the music we listen to now in 2018. The Gregorian Chant is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. It developed mainly in western Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries. Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches. There was also Minnesingers and Troubadours which differed from the Gregorian Chant because it was non church music, they were more poet-musicians who sang about love and other things of the sort.

The music of the period was greatly influenced by the advances which define the Early Modern period. From this changing society occurred a musical language, the polyphonic style which means music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously. The creation of the printing press also made it cheaper and easier to distribute music to more people. After the Renaissance period came one of Baroque and High Baroque, this was approximately from 1600 – 1750. It is a style of Western art music. The word "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco, which means misshapen pearl. During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be skillful improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental