Renaissance

It was the music that was written in Europe, it started around XIV century, ending the Medieval Era. Compare to other aspects of the Renaissance, Music wise it started a 100 years later then other disciplines. It focused in the humanist thought; the recovery of literary and artistic heritage of ancient Greece and Rome. In this era music increasingly freed from the constraints of the church as well in range, rhythm, harmony, form, and notation, becoming a way of personal expression. In the Renaissance era both secular and sacred music survived in quantity, vocal and instrumental. The amount of musical diversity in styles that originated in that time are seen in the years that come.