motet
became sacred with a single latin text for use in the mass and other relig services
madrigal

the most important of secular genre

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aristocratic form of poetry and music that flourished at the Italian courts

Renaissance time period
1450-1600
word painting
rich musical pictoralization of the imagery
Palestrina

wrote over 100 masses including his famous Pope Marcellus mass

-organist

Moteverdi

-published 8 books of madrigals

-a composer

 

culture

-an era of exploration, sciene inquiry, and artistic awakening and secularization

-musicians were employed in churches cities and courts or in the trades of instrument building and music printing

-went from religious to secular

-humanism

-christopher columbus