This section contains an overview of the music of the Renaissance.

This section includes the following pages:

• Slideshow: Music in the Renaissance
• Renaissance Music Overview
• The Printing Press
• Imitation
• Motet
• Josquin des Prez
• Protestant Reformation
• Counter-Reformation
• Giovannia Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Italina Madrigal
• Claudio Monteverdi
• The English Madrigal
• Thomas Weelkes
• Renaissance Dances