1. Religious Music - Renaissance to Baroque
... the growth of music literacy and societal participation (Norton 160). Before this intergration music was hand written and often would be scarce for the musicianship which meant that things like study books and compositions would be primarily used by the more wealthy people in society; the movable type not only offered a great variety and new amount of music to musicians but ... and treble lines, and an interest in improvising in inner voices (Baroque Defined 1). The most predominant form of art in the seventeenth century is opera, which is a combination of poetry, drama, music, and stag...
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