Renaissance music

Renaissance music is classical music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1450 to 1600. Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, since there were no abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century, and since the process by which music acquired "Renaissance" characteristics was a gradual one, but 1450 is used here.

Sources and further reading

• Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
• Bent, Margaret. The Grammar of Early Music: Preconditions for Analysis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1954. ISBN 0393095304
• Brown, Howard M. Music in the Renaissance. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976.
• Fenlon, Iain. The Renaissance. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.
• Gleason, Harold and Becker, Warren. Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, IN: Frangipani Press, 1986. ISBN 089917034X
• Judd, Cristle Collins, ed. Tonal Structures of Early Music. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0815323883.
• Reese, Gustav. Music in the Renaissance. New York: W.W. Norton, 1954. ISBN 0393095304
• Strunck, Oliver. Source Readings in Music History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1950.