Renaissance music were written in Europe during the Renaissance. Agreement among music antiquarians with outstanding dispute has been to begin the time around 1400, with the finish of the archaic time, and to close it around 1600, with the start of the florid period, along these lines initiating the melodic Renaissance around a hundred years after the start of the Renaissance as perceived in different orders.
As in different expressions, the music of the period was fundamentally impacted by the advancements which characterize the early present day time frame: the ascent of humanistic idea; the recuperation of the abstract and creative legacy of old Greece and Rome; expanded development and revelation; the development of business venture; the ascent of a common class; and the Protestant Reconstruction.
From this changing society arose a typical, binding together melodic language, specifically the polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school.
