Question

Of the different music files that you've heard from the Renaissance period, which one do you like the best? Why? How does the music of the Renaissance differ from music today? (Think about the elements of music like tone color, rhythm, melody and so on).

Answer 1

Answer:

i really enjoy some of the songs used to announce royalty, it majestic. and takes you back to that time and makes you feel like you are the royalty,  its very different from music today, as most of the music we listen to nowadays in machine made, while this music was made from bloody hands, and well picked out strings.  its much more majestic than the machines used today

Answer 2

Answer:

Music was an essential part of civic, religious,  courtly life in the Renaissance. ... The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches a & court chapels.

Explanation:

Principal liturgical (church-based) musical forms which remained in use throughout the Renaissance period were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end of the era, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt secular musical forms for religious use .