Renaissance composers became interested in profane music (non-religious music). However, the greatest musical treasures were composed for the church (sacred music). These composers pay much more attention to harmony. And the counter points that existed in medieval music were much more developed.
The style of Renaissance music is polyphonic, where several melodies were played or sung at the same time, and the polychoral style without accompaniment of instruments reveals a high degree of complexity and sophistication of harmonic combinations.
One of the most striking differences between medieval and Renaissance styles is the musical texture - the way the composer works the fabric of his music. While the middle-aged musician looks for a game of contrasts, building his plot with threads arranged against each other, the Renaissance aims at a fabric with wires all combined. Instead of a layered texture, he works the piece, catering to all vocal parts at the same time to achieve a continuous polyphonic mesh.
The key element in this type of tessitura is called imitation, ie the introduction of a melodic passage, which immediately afterwards will be repeated or copied by another voice.
However, Renaissance music influences contemporary music by its polyphonic writing that enables the grouping of voices. Composers used instruments to accompany singing only until the early 16th century, during the 16th century composers created a new form of music, which composed only the sound of the instruments. Composers used flutes, lutes, violas and began using keyboards *. Which is still widely used today, except for the lute, and some flutes and violas. The songs that were only instrumental still exist as part of songs.
