Genre: There are many genres of songs in the secular field, the most representative of which are Italian pastoral, French Champion and German Lide.

Features: It consists of three to five parts, including pure human voice and instrumental music; Melody borrows or imitates popular songs, and is written in a rigorous counterpoint way.

Musicians in the Renaissance wrote a lot of secular music, which was contrary to the guidance of the church at that time to focus on sacred music creation through common law regulations. The content of secular music includes love songs, political satire, dance music and traditional Chinese opera.

Compared with various large-scale musical instruments of sacred music, secular music adopts various small musical instruments which are more convenient to carry, such as drums, harps, accordions and bagpipes, so that musicians can carry their musical instruments on tour.

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The Renaissance first rose in Italian cities, then spread to western European countries, and reached its peak in the 16th century, bringing a period of scientific and artistic revolution and opening the curtain of modern European history, which is considered as the boundary between medieval times and modern times. Renaissance is one of the three major ideological liberation movements in modern western Europe (Renaissance, Religious Reform and Enlightenment).

after the 11th century, with the recovery and development of economy, the rise of cities and the improvement of living standards, people gradually changed their pessimistic and desperate attitude towards real life and began to pursue the pleasure of secular life, which is contrary to the Catholic idea. In Italy, where the urban economy was prosperous in the 14th century, resistance to Catholic culture first appeared.

At that time, Italian citizens and secular intellectuals, on the one hand, hated the theocratic status of Catholicism and its hypocritical asceticism, on the other hand, because there was no mature cultural system to replace Catholic culture, they expressed their cultural opinions by reviving ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Therefore, the Renaissance highlighted the aspect that the new culture took the classics as its teacher, which was not a simple classical renaissance, but actually a bourgeois anti-feudal new culture movement.