The Renaissance period in music describes the two hundred year period from 1400-1600. It was a period of great change and innovation in music, with the emergence of new musical styles, forms, and genres, as well as the development of new musical instruments and new forms of music notation.
During the Renaissance, composers began to write music that was more expressive and emotive than the music of the Middle Ages. They also began to experiment with new forms, such as the madrigal, which was a form of secular vocal music that was often written for small groups of voices.
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