1. Religious Music - Renaissance to Baroque
Before this intergration music was hand written and often would be scarce for the musicianship which meant that things like study books and compositions would be primarily used by the more wealthy people in society; the movable type not only offered a great variety and new amount of music to musicians but also greatly reduced the cost of copying and buying music which greatly helped spread music throughout. ... The most predominant form of art in the seventeenth century is opera, which is a combination of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft (Norton 307). ...
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