[Loch-ruadh] Fw: Renaissance Music on Spinner.com

[STEVE K ROURKE]

> >
> > Renaissance Channel
> > "Hear vocal and instrumental music from 1400 to 1600 in Renaissance -- a
> period
> > in which classical and pop music were often one and the same. Sacred
> Motets
> > performed in church were transformed into bawdy beer-drinking tunes. Hit
> songs
> > from Florence found their way to London and Paris. Much like modern jazz
> > musicians, Renaissance instrumentalists improvised on these tunes -- in
> courtly
> > society and on city streets. Renaissance includes all these hits from
the
> > earliest sacred polyphony of Guillaume Dufay to dance music of Michael
> > Praetorius. "
> >
> > http://www.spinner.com
> >