How Did Music Influence The Renaissance Music
Everyone knows what music is and that different instruments make many sounds, but do people know how preceding generations formed and influenced their descendants’ music? Not a lot of people know the changes that music went through during certain time periods. The Renaissance was a rebirth of creativity and a change in many areas. There were political, economic, and religious events in the periods around 1400-1600 that led to many changes. During the Renaissance, music was used for religious reasons and essential part of civic and courtly life. With music, many composers, printing presses, styles, rhythms and more started to evolve and eventually influenced the future generations. There are so many composers who had many different styles
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1445 and it changed lives of people in Europe. Before the printing press was invented, book making entailed copying all the words and illustrations by hand. Often the copying of the writing was on animal skin that was scraped until it was clean, thin and smooth. All the pages in a book were a lot and the work that was put into the book took a long time, this made books pretty expensive. After the printing press was made, this made bookmaking easy and books were less expensive. For sheet music, it was the same as a book. Everything was written out on animal skin, until the printing press was made then it became easier to print. The printing press is a device for printing ink onto a paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print that rest on a surface that is easily able to move, and then the ink is transferred. Many of the composers had their works printed, publish and distributed to the public. It was easier to spread the music to the public because there were a lot of copies that were made after the printing press was invented. Before the printing press was invented, there wasn’t a lot of copies of sheet music, meaning not a lot of people knew about some of the pieces. Since the printing press was invented it was a new start that helped boost a lot of areas in
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1445 and it changed lives of people in Europe. Before the printing press was invented, book making entailed copying all the words and illustrations by hand. Often the copying of the writing was on animal skin that was scraped until it was clean, thin and smooth. All the pages in a book were a lot and the work that was put into the book took a long time, this made books pretty expensive. After the printing press was made, this made bookmaking easy and books were less expensive. For sheet music, it was the same as a book. Everything was written out on animal skin, until the printing press was made then it became easier to print. The printing press is a device for printing ink onto a paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print that rest on a surface that is easily able to move, and then the ink is transferred. Many of the composers had their works printed, publish and distributed to the public. It was easier to spread the music to the public because there were a lot of copies that were made after the printing press was invented. Before the printing press was invented, there wasn’t a lot of copies of sheet music, meaning not a lot of people knew about some of the pieces. Since the printing press was invented it was a new start that helped boost a lot of areas in