1)Renaissance comes from the word "renaitre" which means "revival", "rebirth" and

"rediscovery".

2) The Main Characteristics of Renaissance Music

1. Music still based on modes, but gradually more accidentals creep in.
2. Richer texture in four or more parts. Bass part is added below the tenor.
3. Blending rather than contrasting strands in the musical texture.
4. Harmony. Greater concern with the flow and progression of chords.
5. Church music. Some pieces were intended for 'a cappella' performance. Mainly
contrapuntal. Lots of imitation. Some church music was accompanied by instruments -
for example polychoral pieces in antiphonal style (Antiphonal - Questions and Answers,
Stereo Effect).
6. Secular music (none-religious music. Sacred music is to do with the church) There was
lots of vocal pieces and dances, and lots of instrumental pieces (However a lot of the
instrumentals were in a vocal style, but sonic were suited to instruments. Vocal music
was by far the more important.)
7. The characteristic timbres of Renaissance musical instruments - many forming families.

3) Vocal music, any of the genres for solo voice and voices in combination, with or without
instrumental accompaniment. It includes monophonicmusic (having a single line of melody)
and polyphonic music (consisting of more than one simultaneous melody). This article deals
with Western art music preserved in staff notation, either for a single solo voice or for voices in
unison, and briefly discusses the differences between Western and non-Western traditions. It
excludes the complex forms of opera, oratorio, cantata, mass, and requiem, in which
solo singing is frequently combined with choral music. The earliest written examples date from
the 10th century, prior to which music was transmitted principally by oral tradition.

4) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina-Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 2 February

1594)[1] was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century
representative of the Roman School of musical composition.[2] He had a lasting influence on the
development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of
Renaissance polyphony.[2]
Thomas Morley-Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – early October 1602) was an English
composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of
the English Madrigal School. He was also involved in music publishing, and from 1598 up to his
death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly). He used the monopoly in partnership with
professional music printers such as Thomas East. According to Philip Brett and Tessa Murray,
Morley was 'chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the
curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful
episodes in the history of English music'.[1]
Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, he became organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He
was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert
Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.
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