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Renaissance

XV-XVI century
1300-1600
Social totality context
Monarchy Socio political:
Power was in the Absolute Monarchy
Nobles: military officers, politicians and royal
advisers.
Merchants: newly rich people who gained wealth
by working hard in the industries and mainly
worked in fields like wool, banking and boat
making etc.
The middle class: shopkeepers and other
professionals.
Workers: These people were not specifically
skilled and had no job protection. Peasants who
lived in rural areas and worked on small pieces of
agricultural land to produce foods and other
staples
Classes
Social totality context
Economic:
•Transportation
•Printing press
Religion:
•Catholic church
•Reform and counter-reform
Cultural:
•Anthropocentrism, not theocentrism,.
•Lay art.
•Return to the ideas of the ancient Greeks.
Reflection
1st generation
Franco-Flemish school

Place: France, Netherlands and Belgium

Musical Ideal: reaction against the excessive complexity and mannered


style of the late 14th century and contained clear, singable melody and
balanced polyphony in all voices.

Composers: Guillaume Dufay

Gilles Binchois

Antoine Busnois

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