MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE TO THE BAROQUE

The shift in music from the Renaissance to the Baroque

The shift in music from the Renaissance to the Baroque

The shift in music from the Renaissance to the Baroque was quite dramatic

All through history, art was a clash of two great movements. The proportion and disproportion, the harmonic and the unstable, static and dynamic, classic and new, are some of the antagonism that we observed when comparing these movements. Of course, these constant changes were not so premeditated, were taking place in the mind of man no other purpose than the same change. Looking back we can extract the most marked of these changes, the transition from Renaissance to Baroque. It is almost unheard of when the Renaissance, the classical motion richer, reaching its peak and peak is displaced by this new concept of the ridiculous, the absurd, the "baroque" (Chant, 1994).

Analysis of instrumentation, function, texture, melody and harmony, the changes were striking and long-lasting.

The term Renaissance is not applicable to the music and other arts, as the music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and marked a break with previous musical tradition, nor meant an attempt to revive forms from antiquity. At that time there were important developments and spirit worship, and interested in the arts, of mankind in promoting the development of music, but cannot speak of a musical Renaissance itself. Overall we can say that the XV and XVI assumed the ultimate triumph of polyphony compared to monodic music of medieval times. At this time some of the instruments disappeared from the Gothic period and survived, especially those best suited to polyphony. Predominance keyboard instruments and strings, such as organ, harpsichord, lute and vihuela (Spanish origin) which facilitated the consecration of music as an accompaniment to his compositions (the Troubadours were accompanied by stringed instruments).

During these two centuries, the height reached by the secular music was another innovation of the time. The music became not only an art cultivated by the clergy, as in the Middle Ages, and the songs of a popular and especially the madrigal (poem sung lyrical theme-galante) were parts for which were drawn almost all composers. During the fifteenth century polyphony beat the Flemish, who managed a perfect match between text and music. The Flemish masters traveled throughout Europe, reaching imposed in Italy itself, despite its strong musical tradition (Collins, 1998).

The word 'baroque' comes from the Portuguese language and means pearl of irregular shape, with the Italian language is the word translated as strange and bizarre. Whatever the roots of the word, it is considered the beginning of the Baroque era is Western European civilization. Baroque rejects natural, considering its ignorance and savagery. Further weakening of political control of the Catholic Church in Europe, which began in the Renaissance, has allowed flourishing secular music.

The Renaissance vocal pieces were composed as a rule, to be performed in churches and used the acoustics of these sacred buildings as an additional design ...