Features Composers Music Composers Renaissance 1. Music based on medieval modes, but these are used more freely.
2. The sound is richer and fuller, the music is written in a more free and expressive.
3. Composers try to merge the melodic lines in the musical texture, instead of producing contrasts between them.
4. There is a greater awareness of harmony, flow and its chord progression, the dissonances are treated more gently.
5. The music style can be Açores (homophonic texture) or contrapuntal (polyphonic texture), using the technique of imitation to weave the musical lines and create a continuous musical texture and uniform.
6. Eclasiástica Music: The typical musical forms are the mass, motet and anthem. Some pieces are composed to be performed a cappella, and usually contrapuntal style with much use of imitation. Also composed church music accompanied by instruments, for example, polychoral style pieces that make use of the anthem and great musical contrasts between the groups.
7. Secular music: A variety of songs (for example, madrigals, Balletto, airs, chansons) often make use of the technique known as ; dances (eg pavanas and graceful, pasamezzoss, basse danse) and instrumental pieces (eg, fantasies, variations, canzonas).
8. Rings characteristic of Renaissance instruments, many of whom are families consisting mainly of several copies of the same instrument but with different sizes and records: viols, recorders, oboes, crumhorn ...