Music of the Renaissance

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"Between the years of 1450 and the 1600s, music was profoundly affected by the great upheaval of the Renaissance. For European musicians, the Renaissance marked the "advent of a new spirit, the reaction of man's sensibility, even sensuality, against theoretical abstraction and useless refinements in technique". The Renaissance also marked a new period when composers began to seek more human forms of musical expression, an idea that later inspired the Romantics.

In the 14th Century, the kings and princes of Europe began employing musicians in staffed "chapels," which were an imitation of the Papal Chapel. Chapels became even more fashionable in the 15th century, when every potentate had his own musicians who would accompany him on travels abroad.

Three notable composers from the first Renaissance school of ... "

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