Renaissance Music: General Points

* (15th-16th cent.) rediscoery of human centered culture of greek/roman times

* Increased secularism: duple meter instead of triple (trinity) increasin amount of it published in 16th cent.

* First geographical place of renaissance music was Burgundy

* Printing Press allowed mass duplication and publishing of music. more music from renaissance than from medieval times.

Mirandola, Oration on the dignity of Man (1486)

* man at center of thought in lyrics

* secular

* duple meter

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Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (1528)

* Supposed convos among aristocrats