Renaissance Music is a style of music that was popular in Europe during the Renaissance period.

Polyphony is the use of multiple independent melodic lines in a single musical composition.

Madrigals, motets, and masses are all types of Renaissance vocal music.

Preludes, toccatas, and fugues are all types of Renaissance instrumental music.

Giovanni Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, and William Byrd are all famous Renaissance composers.

Lutes, violas da gamba, and recorders are all musical instruments that were popular during the Renaissance period.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of consonance, rather than dissonance.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of modal scales, rather than major and minor keys.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of counterpoint, rather than homophony or atonality.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of text painting, symbolism, and allegory.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of both secular and sacred texts.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of polyphony, rather than monophony or homophony.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of modal scales, rather than major and minor keys.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of counterpoint, rather than homophony or atonality.

Renaissance music is characterized by the use of text painting, symbolism, and allegory.