Music+and+Dance

//__By Jasmine__//

=**__Music__**= In the 1300's, 1400's, 1500's, and 1600's music was said to be the most abstract of the arts. Music in these times was also said to bring together people especially in the social aspect of Renaissance life. Music also worked around some of the political ways also. It was a controversy in certain times and this is how it effected the politics of the Renaissance.

The Enlightenment period was known for it's music. In this time period music evolved because the people of the Renaissance stopped putting all of their beliefs in the churches and started taking a more individual look at life, therefore expanding the growth of the arts; including music. In the Baroque Period (the late 17th century to the early 18th century) music was determined by the elaborate pieces with the humorous polyphons and the widely flowing harmonies. In this time period, music was some what restricted. In certain music such as Church music, only vocals were used because it was believed that the instrument of the human voice was given by God to use at this time for this reason. For any other style of music in the Renaissance, it was always accompanied by instrumental music. Instrumental music would normally accompanie things such as **Dances**, vocals, ceremonies, or war. At the end of the Renaissance, instrumental music stated to become a style of it's own. Beethoven and Mozart were trailblazers to make instrumental music a style of it's own.
 * __Instruments of the Rennaissance__**

Some instruments used were brass, reed or strung and percussion instruments.

__**Flutes, Recorders and Brass instruments**__
- Flutes - Recorders - Tabor Pipes - Piccolo Flute

__**Reed Instruments**__
- Dulcian - Rackett - Crumborn - Bagpipe

__**Other Instruments**__
- Viol - Tambourine - Lute - Cittern - Bandura - Virginal - Portative Organs - Violin - Viola - Chello Single, few or a whole symphony of instruments could be used at one time depending on the artist or composer. http://www.tapiasgold.com/instruments.html

__**Composers of the Renaissance**__
Composers of this time were all different and this determined the style of music, tempo, instruments, and how it sounded. Some composers were Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Telemann, Conelli, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart.

=media type="youtube" key="5SvEttR6HTY" width="425" height="350"= In these videos you will hear the wonderful music of the Rennaissance. You will hear the humorous polyphons, melodies, different instruments and the music that goes along with all of the dances from the Rennaissance. Along with this video you will not only hear the music but you will see sketches and paintings depicting the life in the Rennaissance. So take your pick or listen to all of them. You might just like the beginning the classical music of this era.

__**Rennaissance Music Timeline**__

 * 1400-1474-** Guillaume Dufay, known as traditional figure of the Renaissance.
 * 1450-1550-** Composers experimented with Cantus Firmus. Cantus Firmus was commonly used in the middle ages which was strongly based on the Gregorian Chart.

__**Dance**__
Dancing in this time was for entertainment. It also required hours of practice and high skills. Dances were normally done in chains, lines, circles or in pairs with 2 or more people. They were mostly made up by simple dance steps to create an elaborate dance routine. In this aspect, there were also difficult dances that needed more practice then the others. Most common people danced just as a pass time; but the wealthy people in these centuries were supposed to know how to dance and if they didn't, they needed to hide that fact. Dancing encouraged more composers to compose many more songs that were just to be danced to.

There were many forms of dance during the Middle Ages. These forms could vary from the dances you could do on the street just for fun like the Country Folk dance or the Childrens Dance, to the higher standard dance done by adults or nobels such as the Branle or the Pavane. Also at this time Ballet was introduced. =__**Characteristics of popular Rennaissance Dances**__= =__**Branle**__= This is a quick paced French dance where the preformers swing from side to side. This dance is preformed in a chain or circle. This dance is for 2 or more people. =__**Pavane**__=

This is a slow dance in an even meter where couples would walk and dane in pairs. This should be danced with at least 4 to 6 couples.

=__**Callierd**__= This dance follows the Pavane. It is in an odd meter and is lively. This dance has complacated steps and movements and does need quite a bit of practice. This is danced in pairs or couples and there should be at least 3 to 5 couples.

=__**Allemande**__= This is a simple dance which is danced in an even meter in a group. This group moves forward and backward. This can be dances in a line or chain and requires any amount of people but there has to be 2 or more.

=__**The Birth of Ballet**__= Dance in this time became a huge study in France.

=__﻿Renaissance Dance Timeline__=

__**16th Century-**__
Renaissance Dance, Baletti, and Comique de la Reine cometiems called the First Ballet.

The dance history from the Renaissance is not very big beacuse even though dancing has evolved, the differences were not that big.

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