Middle Ages Music Vs Renaissance Music

During both The Middle Ages and the Renaissance scarce music was developed. The purpose of scarce music is to “inspire the faithful to worship.” All of the music was written in Latin and placed into part books. A small amount of women viewed themselves as professional musicians during these two time periods. Both eras developed instrumental genres for dance music. Instruments are categorized into two sections bas and haut. A bas instrument throughout these eras was a recorder. The opposite of the recorder is the lute, signifying a haut or loud instrument.
Monasteries formed the Middle Ages era. Hildegard of Bingen wrote Alleluia as a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Medieval musicians played songs and danced to entertain their viewers. Some musicians