Renaissance Music Research Paper

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Music have been a big entreatment all around the world. Instrument, lyrics and sounds have been for a lot of people there passion for many years. Music is very dynamic and always change all the time depends on the society and the people. Personally, I love music it gives vivid harmony to my life all the time. Musics is so amazing that have been used to communication for thousand of years. Renaissance era was one of the many era very well known in the history of music, was practice often on churches, city, and state, as well as aristocratic courts. Renaissance music was written in Europe in the renaissance era, has been to start the era around 1450, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque …show more content…
More popular instruments were bagpipe, viol, lute, harp, gamba, organelle, sachet, cornett and much more. All of this instrument were the one that become those lyrics alive and enjoyable. The renaissance mass also took place in the renaissance era where catholic churches were more involve in it. The mass is the most solemn ritual of the Catholic church, and generally attended by public worshippers. Mass is the collection of the prayers that falls in the categories of: Ordinary texts that remain the same, and the proper, texts that vary from day to day throughout the church years, depending on the celebration. Catholic Churches are very involve in the music all the time, even now they tend to follow the same structure as before, probability with different type of musics and sounds because music develop all time but in the same other as before. Musical sections of the mass goes by introit, kyrie, gloria, gradual, alleluia (or tract), credo, offertory, sanctus, agnus dei and communion, haven in mint that they then to grande depend on the type of mass they celebrating. The renaissance mass have always call my attention because I'm catholic and always go to church every Sundays and have always ask myself why they always have to follow and structure to celebrate mass, but by learning about the renaissance music my understating of Mass have increases. Music is very magical it gives harmony to many things in life all

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