[Theme music begins] Welcome to Harmonia . . . I’m Angela Mariani. Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated ...

Experience Renaissance and Baroque music from Shakespeare’s plays with Ensemble Chaconne at Illinois College on March 22.

can be found in a lot of sacred choral music from the Renaissance period. A melody would often be sung in one voice - eg soprano - and then copied by another voice shortly afterwards.

A number of forms were developed in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Structures in the Renaissance period were mainly based on the text being used. Religious music was written to be sung by ...

poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A photography exhibit currently… ...