Question

1. What were the effects of the printing press on Renaissance music? How did composers benefit from the invention of the printing press?
2. Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. How is the idea of rebirth reflected in the music of the Renaissance? In your answer, discuss Renaissance musical forms and instruments?

3. How did the role of music change from the Medieval period to the Renaissance? How did it stay the same?

4. Many of the songs from ancient times through the Renaissance were built on existing melodies. Why might composers have chosen to borrow a melody that had already been created?

Answer 1

Because when the printing press was invented you could tell it had a lot of influence on how much music was printed out and was spread quickly.

Answer 2

If so, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1440 clearly had a significant influence on the dissemination of knowledge during the period. The printing press spread rapidly thought Europe, although not in Russia or the Ottoman Empire, with 20 million books printed by 1500, and 1 billion works printed by 1800.